Kate Okikiolu
Kate Adebola Okikiolu | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1965 (age 58–59) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The Analogue of the Strong Szego Limit Theorem on the Torus and the 3-Sphere (1991) |
| Doctoral advisors | Sun-Yung Alice Chang John B. Garnett |
Kate Adebola Okikiolu (born 1965) is a British mathematician.[2] She is known for her work with elliptic differential operators as well as her work with inner-city children.[3]
Early life and education
Okikiolu was born in 1965 in
University of California at Los Angeles,[6] for her thesis The Analogue of the Strong Szego Limit Theorem on the Torus and the 3-Sphere.[5][7][8]
Career
Based on her PhD work, Okikiolu resolved a conjecture of Peter Wilcox Jones concerning a continuous version of the travelling salesman problem.[9] in her paper Characterization of subsets of rectifiable curves in Rn.[10] Okikiolu was an instructor and later assistant professor at
University of California at San Diego in 1995.[7] In 2011 she joined the Mathematics Department at Johns Hopkins University.[11]
She was an invited speaker at the 1996 meeting of the
Association of Women in Mathematics.[12] She also delivered the Claytor-Woodard lecture at the 2002 meeting of the National Association of Mathematicians, an organization for African-American mathematicians.[7]
Honors and awards
In 1997, Okikiolu won a
Sloan Research Fellowship,[13] becoming the first black recipient of this fellowship. In 1997 she also was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers[14] for both her mathematical research and her development of mathematics curricula for inner-city school children. This award is given to only 60 scientists and engineers each year and has a prize of $500,000.[7]
References
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Kate Okikiolu", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ "Katherine Okikiolu - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora". www.math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ "Katherine Okikiolu - Biography". Maths History. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ^ "Katherine Okikiolu - Biography". Maths History. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
- ^ ISBN 9781430318675.
- ^ "Katherine Okikiolu - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora". www.math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
- ^ ISBN 0816048061.
- ^ Kate Okikiolu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Williams, Scott W. (2008). "Black Women in Mathematics". Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- . Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ "Meet Katherine Okikiolu". The Stemettes Zine. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
- ^ "Women and Minorities in Mathematics". cs.appstate.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
- ^ Past Fellows, Sloan Foundation, retrieved 2019-09-09
- ^ "The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details | NSF - National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
External links
- Faculty page at Johns Hopkins
- Theorems by Kate Okikiolu at Theorem of the Day.
- "Katherine Okikiolu". Black Women in Mathematics. University of California.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Kate Okikiolu", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
