Karen Uhlenbeck

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name = Karen Uhlenbeck


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birth_date = 24 August, 1942
birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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residence = USA
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nationality = American
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fields = Mathematician
workplaces = University of Chicago
Northwestern University
University of Texas at Austin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
alma_mater = Brandeis University
University of Michigan
doctoral_advisor = Richard Sheldon Palais
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doctoral_students = Steven Benjamin Bradlow
Louis Crane
Georgios Daskalopoulos
Bonita Driscoll
Michael Gagliardo
Alexander Goncalves
Brendan Guilfoyle
Mark Haskins
Robert B. Lockhart
Andre Mandolesi
Antonella Marini
James Wade McDonald
Caio Negreiros
Fergus O'Dea
Jonathan Poritz
Johan Råde
Steven Sedlacek
Andrea Young
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known_for = Calculus of variations
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awards = MacArthur Prize Fellowship
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footnotes = She was the wife of the biophysicist Olke Cornelis Uhlenbeck and the daughter-in-law of the physicist George Uhlenbeck.

Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (born August 24, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a professor and Sid W. Richardson Regents Chairholder in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas in Austin. In 1998 she was selected to be a Noether Lecturer. In 2000, she became a recipient of the National Medal of Science. In 2007 she won the
American Mathematical Society Steele Prize and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. She has also been a MacArthur Fellow.

Uhlenbeck has supervised 16 doctoral students including Georgios Daskalopoulos whois now a Professor at Brown University.

Uhlenbeck received her B.A. in 1964 from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1968, in which she presented a thesis on "The Calculus of Variations and Global Analysis." She participates or has participated in research in the fields of geometric partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, gauge theory, integrable system, Virasoro actions, non-linear waves, and non-linear Schrödinger equations.

External links

* [http://rene.ma.utexas.edu/users/uhlen/ Karen K. Uhlenbeck's home page] . Accessed 14 March 2006.
* [http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/uhlenbk.htm "Karen Uhlenbeck", Biographies of Women Mathematicians] , Agnes Scott College
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