Karen Smith

Karen Ellen Smith (born May 9, 1965 in Red Bank , New Jersey ) is an American mathematician working on commutative algebra and algebraic geometry .

Life

Smith graduated from Princeton University in 1987, moving to mathematics under the influence of Charles Fefferman . After that she was a school teacher for several years. From 1988 she worked on her doctoral thesis at the University of Michigan with Melvin Hochster , where she received her doctorate in 1993 ( tight closure of parameter ideals and f-rationality ). She then worked as a researcher at Purdue University with Craig Huneke and became a Moore Instructor in 1994 and then Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She has been a professor at the University of Michigan since 1997.

In 2001 she received the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics in particular for the expansion of the tight closure concept (translated as tight closure ) by Hochster and Huneke in commutative algebra and its application in algebraic geometry. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Since 1991 she was married to the Finnish mathematician Juha Heinonen , who died in 2007. She has three children with him. Smith is a regular visitor to Finland.

In 2014 she was invited speaker at the ICM in Seoul (Local and global Frobenius splitting). In 2016 she gave the Noether Lecture and in 2019 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1997 she received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). For 2021, Smith was selected as the Colloquium Lecturer of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

with Lauri Kahanpää, Pekka Kekäläinen, William Traves An invitation to algebraic geometry. Springer Verlag 2000, 2004 (lectures in Finland), ISBN 0-387-98980-3 .
with János Kollár , Alessio Corti Rational and nearly rational algebraic varieties. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004.

Web links

Homepage
Big price for Smith, Notices AMS, pdf
John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Karen Smith. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .

Individual evidence

↑ Karen Smith in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
↑ mentioned particularly tight closure of parameter ideals Inventiones Mathematicae, Volume 115, 1994, pp 41-60, F-rational rings have rational singularities , American J. Math., Vol 119, 1997, pp 159-180 and Gennady Lyubeznik Weak and strong F-regularity are equivalent in graded rings , American J. Math., Vol. 121, 1999, pp. 1279-1290.

personal data
SURNAME	Smith, Karen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Smith, Karen Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Red Bank (New Jersey)

[1] Karen Smith in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)

[2] tioned particularly tight closure of parameter ideals Inventiones Mathematicae, Volume 115, 1994, pp 41-60, F-rational rings have rational singularities , American J. Math., Vol 119, 1997, pp 159-180 and Gennady Lyubeznik Weak and strong F-regularity are equivalent in graded rings , American J. Math., Vol. 121, 1999, pp. 1279-1290.