Carolyn S. Gordon

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Carolyn S. Gordon
Carolyn S. Gordon, Headshot, 2016
Gordon in 2016
Born (1950-12-26) December 26, 1950 (age 73)
Charleston, West Virginia
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis
Known forInverse spectral problems, homogeneous spaces
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsDartmouth College
Doctoral advisorEdward Nathan Wilson

Carolyn S. Gordon (born 1950)[1] is a mathematician and Benjamin Cheney Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. She is most well known for giving a negative answer to the question "Can you hear the shape of a drum?" in her work with David Webb and Scott A. Wolpert. She is a Chauvenet Prize winner and a 2010 Noether Lecturer.

Early life and education

Gordon received her

Technion Israel Institute of Technology and held positions at Lehigh University
and Washington University in St. Louis.

Career

This is the Gordon–Webb–Wolpert example of two flat surfaces with the same spectrum. Notice that both polygons have the same area and perimeter.

Gordon is most well known for her work in

hyperbolic plane[2] and in Euclidean space.[3]

Gordon has written or coauthored over 30 articles on isospectral geometry including work on isospectral closed Riemannian manifolds with a common Riemannian covering. These isospectral Riemannian manifolds have the same local geometry but different topology. They can be found using the "Sunada method," due to Toshikazu Sunada. In 1993 she found isospectral Riemannian manifolds which are not locally isometric and, since that time, has worked with coauthors to produce a number of other such examples.[4]

Gordon has also worked on projects concerning the

geodesic flow on isospectral Riemannian manifolds.[3][5]

Selected awards and honors

In 2001 Gordon and Webb were awarded the

Noether Lecturer.[6] In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society[7] and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[8] She was also an AMS Council member at large from 2005 to 2007.[9] In 2017 she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[10] Gordon was featured in the Women's History Month tribute in the March 2018 edition of the AMS Notices.[11]

Selected articles

Personal life

Gordon is married to David Webb. She cites raising her daughter, Annalisa, as her greatest joy in life.[11]

References

  1. ^ Birth year from ISNI authority control file, accessed 2018-11-27.
  2. S2CID 122328508
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  3. ^ a b mathscinet
  4. S2CID 17159822
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  5. arXiv:math/9503220
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  6. ^ "Carolyn Gordon Named 2010 Noether Lecturer". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  7. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
  8. ^ Elected fellows, AAAS, retrieved 2017-10-30.
  9. ^ "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  10. ^ "AWM Fellows Program". awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  11. ^ a b "Notices of the AMS" (PDF). p. 265. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

External links

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