Ruth Charney

Ruth Charney 1977

Ruth Michele Charney (* 1950 ) is an American mathematician .

Ruth Charney studied mathematics at Brandeis University with a bachelor's degree in 1972 and then a year of modern dance at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio in New York City and received her doctorate in 1977 from Princeton University under Wu-Chung Hsiang (Homological Stability for the General Linear Group of a Principal Ideal Domain). From 1977 to 1979 she was an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley , and from 1980 to 1984 Assistant Professor at Yale University . She was a professor at Ohio State University ( Associate Professor 1984, Professor 1990) and from 2003 at Brandeis University.

She was visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study , the Mittag-Leffler Institute , the Isaac Newton Institute , the MSRI , the IHES , in Dijon, Oxford, at Boston College and in Zurich. From 2006 to 2009 she was Vice President of the American Mathematical Society .

Charney studies geometric group theory (especially Artin groups ) and topology.

From 2013 to 2015 she was President of the Association for Women in Mathematics . She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society . From 2013 to 2015 she was a Polya Lecturer at the Mathematical Association of America.

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SURNAME	Charney, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Charney, Ruth Michele (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	1950