Biography:Elizabeth Meckes
Elizabeth Samantha Meckes (1980–2020)[1] was an American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Her research included work on Stein's method for bounding the distance between probability distributions and on random matrices. She was a professor of mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistics at Case Western Reserve University.[2] She died in December 2020 after a brief battle with cancer.[3]
Education and career
Meckes went to Case Western Reserve University as an undergraduate, and graduated summa cum laude in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a minor in German. She remained at Case for a master's degree, which she completed in 2002. Her master's thesis, Harmonic Maps Between Graphs, was supervised by E. Jerome Benveniste.[4]
Next, Meckes became a doctoral student of Persi Diaconis at Stanford University. She completed her Ph.D. there in 2006; her dissertation was An Infinitesimal Version of Stein’s Method.[4][5]
After postdoctoral research at Cornell University and the American Institute of Mathematics, Meckes returned to Case as a faculty member in 2007. She was tenured in 2013 and promoted to full professor in 2018.[4]
Books
With Mark W. Meckes, Elizabeth Meckes wrote the textbook Linear Algebra (Cambridge University Press, 2018).[6] She is also the author of The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups (Cambridge University Press, 2019).[7]
Recognition
In 2019, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) recognized Meckes as an IMS Fellow, "for contributions to Stein’s method and to random matrix theory".[8] She was twice named a Simons Fellow in Mathematics, in 2013 and 2020. She was a Fellow of the American Institute of Mathematics, 2006–2011.
References
- ↑ Birth year from Czech National Library, retrieved 2019-09-02
- ↑ Elizabeth Meckes, Professor, Case Western Reserve University, https://mathstats.case.edu/faculty/elizabeth-meckes/, retrieved 2019-09-02
- ↑ "Remembering Professor of Mathematics Elizabeth Meckes", The Daily (Case Western Reserve University), December 18, 2020, https://thedaily.case.edu/remembering-professor-of-mathematics-elizabeth-meckes/, retrieved 2022-01-18
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Curriculum vitae, https://case.edu/artsci/math/esmeckes/cv-long.pdf, retrieved 2019-09-02
- ↑ Elizabeth Meckes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Hunacek, Mark (October 2018), "Review of Linear Algebra", MAA Reviews, https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/linear-algebra-9
- ↑ Reviews of The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups:
- Arvanitoyeorgos, Andreas, "none", zbMATH
- Kargin, Vladislav, "none", Mathematical Reviews
- Zeitouni, Ofer (September 2021), "none", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 59 (1): 127–131, doi:10.1090/bull/1733
- ↑ 2019 IMS Fellows Announced, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, May 14, 2019, https://www.imstat.org/2019/05/14/2019-ims-fellows-announced/
Further reading
- "Formula for Success: Drawn by new courses and intriguing problems, students are diving into mathematics", Stanford Magazine, November–December 2004, https://stanfordmag.org/contents/formula-for-success
External links
- Home page
- Elizabeth Meckes publications indexed by Google Scholar
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