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Karen Ellen Smith
American mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1965 · age 61
Karen Ellen Smith 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.
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Currently she is the Keeler Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. In addition to being a researcher in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, Smith with others wrote the textbook An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry.
The same award as Karen
Margaret H. WrightBoth received AWM/MAA Falconer Lecture
Jean TaylorBoth received Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics
Kaisa MatomäkiBoth received Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
Anna Johnson Pell WheelerBoth received Colloquium Lectures
Svetlana KatokBoth received Noether LectureBhama SrinivasanBoth received Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics