Biography:Estelle Basor
Estelle Basor | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 |
| Nationality | American |
| Title | Professor emeritus |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Thesis | Asymptotic Formulas for Toeplitz Determinants (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold Widom |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | California Polytechnic State University American Institute of Mathematics |
| Main interests | Operator theory Random matrices |
Estelle Lucille Basor (born 1947)[1] is an American mathematician interested in operator theory and the theory of random matrices. She is professor emeritus of mathematics at the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly),[2] and deputy director of the American Institute of Mathematics.[3]
Education and career
Basor earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1969, and completed a Ph.D. there in 1975.[3] Her dissertation, supervised by Harold Widom, was Asymptotic Formulas for Toeplitz Determinants.[4]
She joined the Cal Poly faculty in 1976, and taught there until retiring in 2008.[3][2]
Recognition
At Cal Poly, she was the 2005 winner of the Distinguished Research, Creative Activity and Professional Development Award, and a colloquium in her honor was held in 2006.[5] She was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
Personal life
Basor's husband,[7] Kent E. Morrison, is also a mathematician who went to school with her at Santa Cruz, worked with her at Cal Poly, and is now associated with the American Institute of Mathematics.[8]
References
- ↑ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-01.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Faculty and staff directory, Cal Poly Mathematics Department, https://math.calpoly.edu/faculty-and-staff-directory
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Curriculum vitae, https://www.aimath.org/~ebasor/bio.basor.pdf, retrieved 2017-11-04
- ↑ Estelle Basor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Colloquium to honor Estelle Basor and Rami Shani", Cal Poly Report, April 19, 2006, http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1491&context=pao_rpt
- ↑ 2018 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, http://ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows, retrieved 2017-11-03
- ↑ "Birth announcements", Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 4, 1975, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/61361431/, "Jan. 24 at 4:03 a m. to Mr. and Mrs Kent Evans Morrison (Estelle Lucille Basor) ... girl, Sally Ann"
- ↑ Kent E. Morrison, American Institute of Mathematics, https://aimath.org/~morrison/cv.html, retrieved 2017-11-03
External links
- Home page
- Estelle Basor publications indexed by Google Scholar
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