Svetlana Katok (born May 1, 1947) [1] is a Russian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. [2]
Svetlana Katok (born May 1, 1947) [1] is a Russian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. [2]
Katok grew up in Moscow, and earned a master's degree from Moscow State University in 1969; however, due to the anti-Semitic and anti-intelligentsia policies of the time, she was denied admission to the doctoral program there and instead worked for several years in the area of early and secondary mathematical education. [2] She immigrated to the US in 1978, [2] and earned her doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1983 under the supervision of Don Zagier. [2] [3] She joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty in 1990. [2]
Katok founded the Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical Society in 1995; it was renamed in 2007 to the Electronic Research Announcements in Mathematical Sciences, and she remains its managing editor. [4]
Katok was an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large. [5]
Katok is the author of:
Additionally, she coedited the book MASS Selecta: Teaching and learning advanced undergraduate mathematics (American Math. Soc., 2003). [8]
Katok was the 2004 Emmy Noether Lecturer of the Association for Women in Mathematics. [2] In 2012 she and her husband, mathematician Anatole Katok, both became fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [9]
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