Gordana Matic

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Gordana Matic is a Croatian-American mathematician [1] who works as a professor at the University of Georgia. [2] Her research concerns low-dimensional topology and contact geometry.

Matic earned her doctorate from the University of Utah in 1986, under the supervision of Ronald J. Stern, [3] and worked as a C.L.E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the University of Georgia faculty. [4] [5]

Matic was the Spring 2012 speaker in the University of Texas Distinguished Women in Mathematics Lecture Series. [6] In 2014, she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to low-dimensional and contact topology." [7]

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  2. Faculty directory Archived 2015-01-01 at the Wayback Machine , Univ. of Georgia Dept. of Mathematics, retrieved 2015-01-18.
  3. Gordana Matic at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. University of Utah Mathematics Department Newsletter, 1986–1987, retrieved 2015-01-18.
  5. Moore Instructors at MIT from 1949 Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine , Haynes Miller, retrieved 2015-01-18.
  6. Distinguished Women in Mathematics Lecture Series, University of Texas, retrieved 2015-01-18.
  7. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-18.