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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.
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 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...
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...
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
Karen Uhlenbeck works primarily on geometric partial differential equations. She has worked in the areas of the calculus of variations, minimal surfaces, harmonic maps, gauge theory, and integrable systems.
Apr 8, 2019 · For Karen Uhlenbeck, winner of the Abel Prize for math, a whimsical phenomenon offers a window onto higher dimensions.
