Jeanne N. Clelland

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Jeanne A. Nielsen Clelland (born 1970) [1] is an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and its applications to differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, [2] [3] and the author of a textbook on moving frames, From Frenet to Cartan: The Method of Moving Frames (Graduate Studies in Mathematics 178, American Mathematical Society, 2017). [4]

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Education

Clelland graduated from Duke University in 1991, and stayed at Duke for her graduate studies, completing her doctorate there in 1996. [5] Her dissertation, Geometry of Conservation Laws for a Class of Parabolic Partial Differential Equations, was supervised by Robert Bryant. [6]

Recognition

Clelland was awarded the Alice T. Schafer Prize from the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1991. [7] She is also the 2018 winner of the Burton W. Jones Distinguished Teaching Award, from the Rocky Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America. [8]

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References

  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-03.
  2. Lamb, Evelyn; Knudson, Kevin, "Jeanne Clelland's Favorite Theorem: The University of Colorado Boulder math professor tells us how to celebrate the Gauss-Bonnet theorem", Roots of Unity, Scientific American
  3. Jeanne Nielsen Clelland, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder, 2016-09-29, retrieved 2018-08-16
  4. Reviews of From Frenet to Cartan:
  5. "Clelland, Jeanne", CU Experts, University of Colorado Boulder, retrieved 2018-08-16
  6. Jeanne N. Clelland at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. Gallian, Joseph A. (June 1, 2019), "The first twenty-five winners of the AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 66 (6): 870–874, doi: 10.1090/noti1892
  8. 2018 Section Teaching Award Winners, Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA, retrieved 2018-08-16