Sarah Witherspoon

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Sarah Witherspoon
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Born
Sarah Jane Witherspoon
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Arizona State University
University of Chicago
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions University of Toronto
Mills College
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mount Holyoke College
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst College
Texas A&M University

Sarah Jane Witherspoon is an American mathematician interested in topics in abstract algebra, including Hochschild cohomology [SW99] and quantum groups. [W96] [BW04] She is a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University [1]

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Education

Witherspoon graduated from Arizona State University in 1988, [1] where she earned the Charles Wexler Mathematics Prize as the best mathematics student at ASU that year. [2] She went on to graduate study in mathematics at the University of Chicago, and completed her Ph.D. in 1994. [1] Her dissertation, supervised by Jonathan Lazare Alperin, was The Representation Ring of the Quantum Double of a Finite Group. [3]

Career

Witherspoon taught at the University of Toronto from 1994 to 1998. After holding visiting assistant professorships at Mills College, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Amherst College, she joined the Texas A&M faculty in 2004. [1]

Honors and awards

She was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society, "for contributions to representation theory and cohomology of Hopf algebras, quantum groups, and related objects, and for service to the profession and mentoring". [4] She was named MSRI Simons Professor for Spring 2020. [5]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae , retrieved 2017-11-03
  2. Charles Wexler Awards, Arizona State University School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, retrieved 2017-11-04
  3. Sarah Witherspoon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 2018 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2017-11-03
  5. MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved 2021-06-07.