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Katharine A. "Katy" Ott is an American mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, and known for her advocacy of women in mathematics. She is a professor of mathematics at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where she chairs the Department of Mathematics. [1]

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Education and career

Ott is originally from Cumberland, Maine. [2] She was an undergraduate at Middlebury College, graduating in 2003. She went to the University of Virginia for graduate study in mathematics, received a master's degree there in 2005, and completed her Ph.D. in 2008. [3] Her doctoral dissertation, Boundary Integral Equations in Non-Smooth Domains, was supervised by Irina Mitrea. [4]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Kentucky, she continued at the University of Kentucky as an assistant professor beginning in 2011. [3] At the University of Kentucky, she organized the Sonia Kovalevsky Day program of activities for female secondary school students and their teachers. [5] In 2014 she moved to Bates College; [2] she was tenured there as an associate professor in 2018 and promoted to full professor in 2024. [3]

Recognition

For her work organizing the Sonia Kovalevsky Day program, Ott received the 2014 National Service Award of the Association for Women in Mathematics. [5] She was named a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2024, "for immense dedication to outreach to girls and women, including directing GirlsGetMath at ICERM; supporting AWM through committees, grant-writing, the newsletter, and AWM’s USA Science and Engineering Festival booth; and leading award-winning tutoring and volunteering initiatives in Maine". [6]

Bates College gave Ott the 2023 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching award of the college. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Katharine A. Ott", Faculty expertise, Bates College, retrieved 2025-01-18
  2. 1 2 Hubley, Doug (16 October 2014), Bates welcomes new faculty: Katharine Ott, mathematics, Bates College, retrieved 2025-01-18
  3. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae , retrieved 2025-01-18; as linked from her home page.
  4. ↑ Katharine Ott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. 1 2 Hautala, Keith (16 December 2013), A&S Math Professor Receives National Service Award, University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2025-01-18
  6. ↑ 2024 Class of AWM Fellows, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2025-01-18
  7. ↑ Stires, Deirdre (15 November 2023), In Katy Ott’s math classroom, stress = low and learning = high. Here’s her winning equation, Bates College, retrieved 2025-01-18
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