Biography:Cynthia Vinzant
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Cynthia Vinzant is an American mathematician specializing in real algebraic geometry; her research has also involved algebraic combinatorics, matroid theory, Hermitian matrices, and spectrahedra in convex optimization. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Washington.[1]
Education and career
Vinzant is a 2007 graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio, where she studied mathematics and neuroscience.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in mathematics in 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Real Algebraic Geometry in Convex Optimization supervised by Bernd Sturmfels.[2][3]
After working as a Hildebrandt Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley, Vinzant obtained a tenure-track assistant professor position at North Carolina State University in 2015. She moved to the University of Washington in 2021 and was promoted to associate professor in 2023.[2]
Recognition
In 2020, Vinzant was named as a Sloan Research Fellow in mathematics[4] and as a von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.[2] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2024 class of fellows.[5]
References
- ↑ Mathematics faculty, University of Washington, https://math.washington.edu/people/faculty, retrieved 2023-11-10
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Cynthia Vinzant — Short bio, http://sites.math.washington.edu/~vinzant/bio.html, retrieved 2023-11-10
- ↑ Cynthia Vinzant at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Peake, Tracey (February 20, 2020), "Mathematician Cynthia Vinzant Named Sloan Research Fellow", NC State University News (North Carolina State University), https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/02/vinzant-sloan-2020/, retrieved 2023-11-10
- ↑ 2024 Class of Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, https://www.ams.org/fellows_by_year.cgi?year=2024, retrieved 2023-11-10
External links
- Home page
- Cynthia Vinzant publications indexed by Google Scholar
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