FSU Women in Mathematics Lecture Series
The FSU Women in Math departmental lecture series is an annual event aimed at promoting the achievements of women in mathematics and fostering an inclusive community within the field. Held each March, the series features a one-day program that includes a lunch with graduate students, AWM Chapter members, female faculty, and postdocs, followed by a colloquium lecture delivered by a distinguished female mathematician. The event provides a platform for networking, mentorship, and inspiring discussions on current mathematical research and gender diversity in the mathematical sciences.
Karen Smith
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Short Bio: Karen Smith is the William Fulton Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Her research lies at the interface of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, with particular emphasis on using methods from positive characteristic to address questions about algebraic varieties over fields of characteristic zero.
Professor Smith has been a leading figure in developing and applying Frobenius methods in algebraic geometry. Her work helped establish deep connections between singularities detected through reduction to characteristic p and rational singularities and other classes of singularities arising in birational geometry. She also made fundamental contributions to understanding how Frobenius splitting and related techniques can be used to study global geometric properties of projective varieties, including positivity and projective embeddings.
Another important direction of her work concerns multiplier ideals and test ideals. She has contributed to the development of asymptotic multiplier ideals in characteristic zero and their positive-characteristic analogues, test ideals, as well as associated invariants such as jumping numbers. These ideas have become important tools connecting commutative algebra, singularity theory, and birational geometry.
Professor Smith's contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics from the American Mathematical Society and the AWM–AMS Noether Lecture. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she delivered the AMS Colloquium Lectures in 2022.
Her research excellence and expository skill have been recognized with the 2011 Ruth-Lyttle-Satter Prize and the 2020 Levi L. Conant Prize of the AMS. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013), a member of Academia Europaea (2019), and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. An invited speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians and a frequent plenary lecturer worldwide, Wilkinson continues to shape modern dynamics while mentoring the field's next generation.
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Amie Wilkinson
Title: Dynamical symmetry
Abstract : The symmetries of an object are widely understood to be the collection of motions that preserve that object, which forms a group under composition. The field of dynamical systems takes static mathematical objects and sets them in motion, watching them evolve over time. What are the symmetries of a dynamical system? I will discuss some of the history of the subject, which naturally highlights work of women in mathematics, as well as recent work of my own and others on an emerging program we call centralizer rigidity.
Short Bio: Amie Wilkinson is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, where she has been on the faculty since 2012. She earned an A.B. in mathematics from Harvard (1989) and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1995) under Charles Pugh, then rose through the ranks at Northwestern University before moving to Chicago. Wilkinson's work sits at the heart of smooth dynamical systems and ergodic theory; her results on stable ergodicity, partial hyperbolicity, and (with Christian Bonatti and Sylvain Crovisier) the C1-centralizer problem provided a partial resolution of Smale's 12th problem for the 21st century.
Her research excellence and expository skill have been recognized with the 2011 Ruth-Lyttle-Satter Prize and the 2020 Levi L. Conant Prize of the AMS. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013), a member of Academia Europaea (2019), and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. An invited speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians and a frequent plenary lecturer worldwide, Wilkinson continues to shape modern dynamics while mentoring the field's next generation.
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This event is supported by the Vice President for Research, Dr. Stacey Patterson, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Sam Huckaba, and the Department of Mathematics at Florida State University.
Accompanying events:
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The Sum of Us: A Lunch for Aspiring Mathematicians
Organized by AWM leadership
Friday, March 27, 11:30 am -- 1:30 pm, Global & Multicultural engagement building : 2400 & Dining Room
This event is for undergraduate/graduate students who are interested in Mathematics and Science.
This event is supported by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Sam Huckaba
- Convergence & Conversation: A Dinner for Junior Math Faculty and Graduate Students
Friday, March 27This event is supported by the Vice President for Research, Dr. Stacey Patterson
Special thanks to Elizabeth Scott and Gina Fort for their exceptional support in making this event possible.
