Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu

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Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu (* 1965 in London , England ) is a British-American mathematician and university professor . One of her research areas is geometric analysis and elliptic differential operators .

Life and research

Okikiolu was born in London, the second daughter of the math teacher Patricia Natasha Edwards and the Nigerian mathematician and inventor George Olatokunbo Okikiolu . She enrolled in 1985 at the Newnham College of Cambridge University and was awarded the 1987 Bachelor Accounts in mathematics. She then studied in the USA and did her doctorate in 1991 with Sun-Yung Alice Chang at the University of California in Los Angeles with the dissertation: The Analogue of the Strong Szego Limit Theorem on the Torus and the 3-Sphere. From 1993 to 1995 she was an instructor and later an assistant professor at Princeton University . She spent part of this time from September 1993 to June 1994 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , where she met and married the mathematician Hans Lindbad. She then worked as a guest assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1997 and then became an associate professor at the University of California at San Diego. In 1997 she received two major awards, the Sloan Research Fellowship and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for her project "Determinants of Elliptical and Toeplitz Operators with Applications to Geometry". In 2011 she moved to the math department at Johns Hopkins University .

Awards (selection)

  • 1997: Sloan Research Fellowship
  • 1997: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
  • 2009: AWM / MAA Falconer Lecturer

Publications (selection)

  • Critical metrics for the determinant of the Laplacian in odd dimensions. Ann. of Math. (2) 153 (2001), no. 2, 471-531.
  • High frequency cut-offs, trace formulas and geometry. Spectral problems in geometry and arithmetic (Iowa City, IA, 1997), 107-121, Contemp. Math., 237, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1999
  • with Victor Guillemin: Spectral asymptotics of Toeplitz operators on Zoll manifolds, J. Funct. Anal. 146 (1997) no. 2, 496-516.
  • with Victor Guillemin : Subprincipal terms in Szegő estimates. Math. Res. Lett. 4 (1997), no. 1, 173-179.
  • with Victor Guillemin: Szegő theorems for customs operators, Math. Res. Lett. 3 (1996) no. 4, 449-452.
  • The multiplicative anomaly for determinants of elliptic operators, Duke Math. J. 79 (1995), no. 3, 723-750.
  • The Campbell-Hausdorff theorem for elliptic operators and a related trace formula, Duke Math. J. 79 (1995), no. 3, 687-722.
  • The analogue of the strong Szegö limit theorem on the 2- and 3- dimensional spheres, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1996), no. 2, 345-372.
  • Characterization of subsets of rectifiable curves in Rn, J. London Math. Soc. (2) 46 (1992) no. 2, 336-348.

literature

  • Ray Spangenburg, Diane Moser, Douglas Long: African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention, New York, NY: Facts on File, 2003. ISBN 0816048061 .
  • Paulus Gerdes: African Doctorates in Mathematics. African Mathematical Union, Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa, 2007, ISBN 978-1430318675 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Okikiolu, Kathleen Adebola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Okikiolu, Kate; Okikiolu, Katherine Adebola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH London