Biography:Jill Pipher

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Jill C. Pipher
Born (1955-12-14) December 14, 1955 (age 68)
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsBrown University
Doctoral advisorJohn B. Garnett

Jill Catherine Pipher (born December 14, 1955, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is the president-elect of the American Mathematical Society, and will begin a two-year term in 2019.[1] She is the past-president of the Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM, 2011–2013), and she was the first director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM, 2011–2016), an NSF-funded mathematics institute based in Providence, Rhode Island.

She is currently the Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor of Mathematics at Brown University. She received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1979 and a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1985 under the direction of John B. Garnett.[2] She taught at the University of Chicago (1985–1990) before taking a position at Brown in 1990, where she served as chair of the Mathematics Department from 2005 to 2008.

Pipher's work has been in harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, partial differential equations, and cryptography. She has published more than 50 research articles and has coauthored with Jeffrey Hoffstein and Joseph Silverman a textbook titled An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography.[3]

In 1996, Pipher, along with Jeffrey Hoffstein [de], Daniel Lieman and Joseph Silverman, founded NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc. to market their cryptographic algorithms, NTRUEncrypt and NTRUSign.

In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4] In 2014 Pipher was a featured speaker at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, the largest gathering of mathematicians in the United States. She delivered a Mathematical Association of America Invited Lecture[5] entitled The Mathematics of Lattice-based Cryptography. The Association for Women in Mathematics has named her as their Noether Lecturer for 2018.[6] In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[7]

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