Stephanie van Willigenburg

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Stephanie van Willigenburg is a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia [1] whose research is in the field of algebraic combinatorics and concerns quasisymmetric functions. Together with James Haglund, Kurt Luoto and Sarah Mason, she introduced the quasisymmetric Schur functions, which form a basis for quasisymmetric functions. [2]

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Education

Van Willigenburg earned her Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of St. Andrews under the joint supervision of Edmund F. Robertson and Michael D. Atkinson, with a thesis titled The Descent Algebras of Coxeter Groups. [3]

Recognition

Van Willigenburg was awarded the Krieger–Nelson Prize in 2017 [4] by the Canadian Mathematical Society. She was named to the 2023 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, "for contributions to algebraic combinatorics, mentorship and exposition, and inclusive community building". [5]

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References

  1. Faculty, UBC Mathematics, retrieved 2017-04-15.
  2. Haglund et al. 2011a.
  3. Stephanie van Willigenburg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Stephanie van Willigenburg to receive the 2017 CMS Krieger-Nelson Prize". Cms.math.ca. 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  5. "2023 Class of Fellows". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2022-11-09.