Event
Lauren Williams Aisenstadt Chair Lecture Series
Monday, September 26, 2022toTuesday, October 4, 2022
Lauren Kiyomi Williams听is an听American听mathematician听known for her work on听cluster algebras,听tropical geometry,听algebraic combinatorics,听amplituhedra, and the positive听Grassmannian, and more recently Macdonald polynomials. She is Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics at听Harvard University.
She received her PhD in 2005 at the听Massachusetts Institute of Technology听under the supervision of Stanley. Her dissertation was titled听Combinatorial Aspects of Total Positivity.
Awards:
- 2012: she became one of the inaugural听fellows听of the听American Mathematical Society
- 2016: winner of the听Association for Women in Mathematics听and听Microsoft听Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory
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