Patricia E. Bauman

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Patricia E. Bauman is an American mathematician who studies partial differential equations that model the behavior of liquid crystals and superconductors. [1] She is a professor of mathematics at Purdue University. [2]

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Education and career

Bauman received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1982, under the supervision of Eugene Fabes; her dissertation was Properties of Non-Negative Solutions of Second-Order Elliptic Equations and their Adjoints. [3] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and a C. L. E. Moore instructor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the Purdue University faculty. [1]

Recognition

Bauman was given an AMS Centennial Fellowship for 1994 to 1995. [4] In 2012, Bauman became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [5]

She was elected chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (SIAG/MS) for 2017–2019. [6] She is a former AMS Council member at large. [7]

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  2. "- Department of Mathematics, Purdue University". Department of Mathematics, Purdue University. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  3. Patricia E. Bauman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  5. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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  7. "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-27.