Rhonda Hughes

Rhonda Jo Hughes (born September 28, 1947 ) is an American mathematician and university professor. She is Helen Herrmann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College .

life and work

Hughes studied engineering for a year and a half at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , returned home to work for six months, and then resumed her education at the University of Illinois at Chicago on a math scholarship. She received a bachelor's and master's degree in science and did her doctorate in 1975 at the same university under Shmuel Kantorovitz with the dissertation: Semi-Groups of Unbounded Linear Operators in Banach Space. She then was Assistant Professor at Tufts University until 1980 and then Professor at Bryn Mawr College until 2011. From 1887 to 1988 she was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). She was a member of the Physics , Mathematics, and Applications Commission of the United States National Research Council. From 1992 to 1994 she organized the Spelman-Bryn Mawr Summer Mathematics Program for female students with Sylvia Bozeman . In 1998 they both founded the EDGE program ( Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education ), a program for women who are aiming for a doctorate in mathematics courses. From 2013 to 2015 she worked on projects at the Khan Academy .

Hughes has two children, historian Sarah Hughes and artist Jeremy Hughes.

Honors

1997: Distinguished Teaching Award, Mathematical Association of America
2004: AAAS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement
2010: M. Gweneth Humphreys Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Women in Mathematics
2013: Elizabeth Bingham Award, Association for Women in Science
2015: Presidential Award, Association of Women in Mathematics
2017: Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Publications

with Beth Campbell Hetrick: Continuous Dependence on Modeling for Nonlinear Ill-Posed Problems, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 349, 2009
with Beth Campbell Hetrick: Continuous Dependence Results for Inhomogeneous Ill-Posed Problems in Banach Space, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 331, 2007
with Karen Ames: Structural Stability for Ill-Posed Problems in Banach Space, Semigroup Forum, 70, 2005
with Walter Huddell: Smooth Approximation of Finitely-many Relativistic Point Interactions, Special Issue on Point Interactions, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 38, 2005
with Walter Huddell: Smooth Approximation of Singular Perturbations, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 282, 2003
Math in the ICU, Math Horizons, November, 2003
with Karen Ames: Continuous Dependence Results for Ill-Posed Problems, Semigroups of Operators: Theory and Applications, Second International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2001, Optimization Software, Inc., Publications, New York-Los Angeles, 2002
with Sylvia Bozeman: Improving the Graduate School Experience for Women in Mathematics: The EDGE Program, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 10, 2004

literature

Morrow, Charlene; Perl, Teri: "Rhonda Hughes (1947-)" in Notable Women in Mathematics, a Biographical Dictionary, Greenwood Press, pp. 85-89, 1998

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personal data
SURNAME	Hughes, Rhonda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hughes, Rhonda Jo; Weisberg, Rhonda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1947