Event
Lauren Williams Aisenstadt Chair Lecture Series
Monday, September 26, 2022toTuesday, October 4, 2022
Lauren Kiyomi WilliamsÌýis anÌýAmericanÌýmathematicianÌýknown for her work onÌýcluster algebras,Ìýtropical geometry,Ìýalgebraic combinatorics,Ìýamplituhedra, and the positiveÌýGrassmannian, and more recently Macdonald polynomials. She is Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics atÌýHarvard University.
She received her PhD in 2005 at theÌýMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyÌýunder the supervision of Stanley. Her dissertation was titledÌýCombinatorial Aspects of Total Positivity.
Awards:
- 2012: she became one of the inauguralÌýfellowsÌýof theÌýAmerican Mathematical Society
- 2016: winner of theÌýAssociation for Women in MathematicsÌýandÌýMicrosoftÌýResearch Prize in Algebra and Number Theory
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