Susan Howson

Susan Howson (* 1973 ) is a British mathematician who studied number theory of elliptic curves . She became the first woman to win the Adams Prize .

Howson received his PhD in 1998 from John Coates at Cambridge University ( Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves for p-adic Lie Extensions). She taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, the University of Nottingham and finally until 2005 at Oxford University .

In 2002 she received the Adams Prize (at the time she was a Lecturer in Nottingham and a Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow of the Royal Society).

Works

Structure of central torsion Iwasawa modules. Bull. Soc. Math. France 130 (2002), no. 4, 507-535.
Euler characteristics as invariants of Iwasawa modules. Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 85 (2002), no. 3, 634-658.
with Coates: Euler characteristics and elliptic curves. II. J. Math. Soc. Japan 53 (2001), no. 1, 175-235.
with Balister: Note on Nakayama's lemma for compact Λ-modules. Asian J. Math. 1 (1997), no. 2, 224-229.
with Coates: Euler characteristics and elliptic curves. Elliptic curves and modular forms (Washington, DC, 1996). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 94 (1997), no. 21, 11115-11117.