Julia Wolf | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Clare College, Cambridge University of Paris-Sud |
| Thesis | Arithmetic Structure in Sets of Integers (2007) |
| Doctoral advisor | Timothy Gowers |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Arithmetic combinatorics |
| Website | www |
Julia Wolf is a British mathematician specialising in arithmetic combinatorics who was the 2016 winner of the Anne Bennett Prize of the London Mathematical Society. [1] [2] She is currently a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. [3]
Wolf writes that her childhood ambition was to become a carpenter,and that she became attracted to science only after subscribing to Scientific American as a teenager. [4]
She read mathematics at Clare College,Cambridge,completing the Mathematical Tripos in 2003. [3] She remained at Cambridge for graduate study,and completed her PhD there in 2008. Her dissertation,Arithmetic Structure in Sets of Integers,was supervised by Timothy Gowers. [3] [5] She was also mentored in her doctoral studies by Ben Green,whom she met when he was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge from 2001 to 2005. [6]
Since earning her doctorate she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley,California,Triennial assistant professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey,Hadamard associate professor at the École Polytechnique in Paris (earning a habilitation at the University of Paris-Sud in 2012),and Heilbronn reader in combinatorics and number theory at the University of Bristol. [3] She returned to Cambridge as a university lecturer in 2018, [3] [7] and was a Fellow of Clare College from 2018 to 2022. [3]
In 2016 the London Mathematical Society gave Wolf their Anne Bennett Prize "in recognition of her outstanding contributions to additive number theory,combinatorics and harmonic analysis and to the mathematical community." [1] [2] The award citation particularly cited her work with Gowers on counting solutions to systems of linear equations over abelian groups,and her work on quadratic analogues of the Goldreich–Levin theorem. [2]
