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Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS (born August 24, 1942) is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin , where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair.
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University of Texas, USA. “for her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics.”. Biography. Citation.
Mar 19, 2019 · Karen Uhlenbeck, whose seminal work helped launch an entire field of mathematics, was awarded the Abel Prize today in an announcement made from Oslo. The prize, created by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2003, is widely viewed as the mathematics equivalent of a Nobel Prize.
Mar 19, 2019 · March 19, 2019. For the first time, one of the top prizes in mathematics has been given to a woman. On Tuesday, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced it has awarded this year’s...
Mar 28, 2019 · This month, the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win one of the field’s most prestigious awards, the Abel Prize, which is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and...
Karen Uhlenbeck is an American mathematician who is a leading expert on partial differential equations. In 2019 she became the first female winner of the Abel Prize. View seven larger pictures. Biography. Karen Uhlenbeck's father Arnold Keskulla, was an engineer and her mother Carolyn Windeler Keskulla, was an artist.
Mar 20, 2019 · Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, a University of Texas at Austin emeritus professor renowned for her groundbreaking advancements in geometric analysis and gauge theory, is the first woman to win...
When Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck held a Plenary Lecture in Kyoto, Japan in 1990, at the world’s most important gathering of mathematicians: The ICM, or the International Congress of Mathematicians, she was only the second woman in history to have done so – the first being Emmy Noether in 1932.
Karen Uhlenbeck giving a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study. Photo: Andrea Kane A biography of Karen Uhlenbeck By Professor Jim Al-Khalili FRS In 1990, in Kyoto, Japan, Karen Uhlenbeck became only the second woman to give a Plenary Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians – ICM – the largest and most important gathering of
