Rosa Orellana

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Rosa C. Orellana is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Orellana's excitement for mathematics was recognized early, by one of her elementary school teachers. [3] She is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles, [1] and was the first in her family to earn a college degree. Her undergraduate education also included summer research with Kenneth Millett at the University of California, Santa Barbara on knot theory and its applications to biomolecules. [3]

She completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego. [4] Originally intending to continue her study of knot theory, she shifted to algebraic combinatorics after the knot theorist she planned to work with went on leave. [3] Her dissertation, The Hecke Algebra of Type B at Roots of Unity, Markov Traces and Subfactors, was supervised by Hans Wenzl. [4]

Career

After completing her doctorate, Orellana became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, supported by a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, [2] [5] before joining Dartmouth as a Wilson Foundation Fellow in 2000. [2] [6]

At Dartmouth, she won the John M. Manley Huntington Memorial Award for outstanding research by a newly tenured faculty member, helped found the Dartmouth chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, [2] [6] and founded a sequence of Sonia Kovalevsky Math days to encourage local school girls to continue in mathematics. [6] She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM). [7]

Orellana was a former Council member at large for the American Mathematical Society (AMS) from 2020 to 2022. [8]

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