Emily Foster Stone is an American mathematician whose research includes work in fluid dynamics and dynamical systems. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Montana, where she chairs the Department of Mathematical Sciences. [1] She is also chair of the Activity Group on Dynamical Systems of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. [2]
Stone majored in physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, graduating in 1984. [1] She completed her Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics at Cornell University in 1989; her dissertation, A Study of Low-Dimensional Models for the Wall Region of a Turbulent Boundary Layer, was supervised by Philip Holmes. [1] [3]
Stone taught at Arizona State University from 1992 to 1993, and at Utah State University from 1993 to 2004, before joining the University of Montana faculty in 2004. [1]
Stone was elected as chair of the Activity Group on Dynamical Systems (SIAG-DS) of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2020. [2] She was elected Vice Chair of the same SIAG in 2022. [4]
