Karen Smith (mathematician)
| Karen E. Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 9, 1965 Red Bank, New Jersey |
| Nationality |
 United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University University of Michigan |
| Doctoral advisor | Mel Hochster |
| Doctoral students |
William Traves Joel Rosenberg Sara Faridi Uriel Scott Manuel Blickle Amanda Johnson Cornelia Yuen Yogesh More Kevin Tucker Daniel Hernandez Chelsea Walton Michael Von Korff Sarah Mayes |
| Notable awards | Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics (2001) |
Karen Ellen Smith (born 9 May 1965, Red Bank, New Jersey) is an American mathematician, specializing in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She completed her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Princeton University before earning her PhD in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1993. Currently she is the Keeler Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. In addition to being an eminent researcher in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra Smith is also well known for her textbook An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry.
Biography
Smith graduated in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Princeton University, where she was influenced in her freshman year by Charles Fefferman. She was a high school mathematics teacher in the academic year 1987/1988. In 1988 she became a graduate student at the University of Michigan, where in 1993 she earned her PhD with thesis Tight closure of parameter ideals and f-rationality under the supervision of Melvin Hochster. In the academic year 1993–1994 she was a postdoc at Purdue University working with Craig Huneke. In 1994 she became a C.L.E. Moore Instructor and then an associate professor at MIT. Since 1997 she has been a professor at the University of Michigan.
In 2001 Smith won the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics for her development of tight closure methods, introduced by Hochster and Huneke, in commutative algebra and her application of these methods in algebraic geometry.[1]
In 1991 she married the Finnish mathematician Juha Heinonen who died in 2007. The marriage produced three children. Smith is regularly a visiting professor at the University of Jyväskylä.
Writings
- with Lauri Kahanpää, Pekka Kekäläinen, William Traves An invitation to algebraic geometry. Springer Verlag 2000, 2004 (lectures delivered in Finland), ISBN 0-387-98980-3.
- with János Kollár, Alessio Corti: Rational and nearly rational algebraic varieties. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004.
References
- ↑ The prize committee specifically cited: Tight closure of parameter ideals, Inventiones Mathematicae, vol. 115, 1994, pp. 41–60; F-rational rings have rational singularities, American J. Math., vol 119, 1997, pp. 159–180; and, with Gennady Lyubeznik, Weak and strong F-regularity are equivalent in graded rings, American J. Math., vol. 121, 1999, pp. 1279–1290.
External links
- Homepage
- Satter Prize for Smith, Notices AMS, pdf
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Karen Smith", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
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