Jenny Harrison
Jenny Harrison | |
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Atlanta, Georgia, US | |
| Education | University of Alabama (BA) University of Warwick (PhD) |
| Known for | Contributions to geometric analysis, chainlets |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Christopher Zeeman |
Jenny Harrison is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Education and career
Harrison grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. On graduating from the
In 1986, after being denied tenure at Berkeley, Harrison filed a lawsuit based on gender discrimination.[3] Stephen Smale and Robion Kirby were the most vocal opponents to her receiving tenure during the case, while Morris Hirsch and James Yorke were her most vocal supporters. The 1993 settlement led to a new review of her work by a panel of seven mathematicians and science faculty who unanimously recommended tenure as a full professor.[1][3]
Research contributions
Harrison specializes in
As a graduate student at the University of Warwick, where Zeeman introduced her to Plateau's problem. She found a counterexample to the Seifert conjecture[9] at Oxford. In a Berkeley seminar in 1983 she proposed the existence of a general theory linking these together, and the theory of differential chains began to evolve. Jenny Harrison and Harrison Pugh proved that the topological vector space of differential chains satisfies a universal property determined by two natural axioms.[5] They have used the theory to provide the first universal solution to Plateau's problem, including soap film regularity, building upon Harrison's earlier paper.[10] Recently, Fried and Seguin have found a broad generalization to Reynolds transport theorem using the methods of differential chains.[11]
Awards and fellowships
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- Foundational Questions Institute, research award, 2009
- Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, Miller Professor, 2007
- Rockefeller University, Visiting Research Professor, 1996–97
- Yale University, National Science Foundation, Visiting Scholar, 1989–90
- Somerville College, 1978–81
- Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, Miller Fellow, 1977–78
- Institute for Advanced Study, Visiting Fellow, Princeton, 1975–76
References
- ^ a b [1] Paul Selvin, Jenny Harrison Finally Gets Tenure in Math at Berkeley, Science 16 Jul 1993: Vol. 261, Issue 5119, pp. 286
- ^ Jenny Harrison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b [2] Paul Selvin, Does the Harrison Case Reveal Sexism in Math?, Science 28 Jun 1991: Vol. 252, Issue 5014, pp. 1781-1783
- ^ [3] Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine Jenny Harrison, Operator calculus of differential chains and differential forms, to appear in the Journal of Geometric Analysis, arxiv posting January 2011, 89 pages
- ^ a b J. Harrison and H. Pugh, Topological Aspects of Differential Chains, Journal of Geometric Analysis, 22 (2012), no. 3, 685–690
- ^ [4] Jenny Harrison, Soap film solutions to Plateau's problem, Journal of Geometric Analysis, January 2014, 24(1):271-2972
- ^ Jesse Douglas, Solutions of the problem of Plateau, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 33 (1931), 263–321
- ^ Herbert Federer and Wendell Fleming, Normal and integral currents, The Annals of Mathematics 72 (1960), no. 3, 458–520
- ^ Jenny Harrison, counterexamples to the Seifert conjecture. Topology (journal)|Topology, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 249–278, 1988
- ^ Jenny Harrison, Journal of Geometric Analysis, January 2013, 24(1):271-297
- ^ Eliot Fried and Brian Seguin, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 9 (2014) 1729–1779
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