Biography:Rachel Justine Pries
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.jpg) Pries in 2007 | |
| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Formal patching and deformation of wildly ramified covers of curves (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Harbater |
| Website | http://www.math.colostate.edu/~pries/ |
Rachel Justine Pries is an American mathematician whose research focuses on arithmetic geometry and number theory. She is a professor at Colorado State University and both a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[1] and a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[2]
Education
Pries was a student at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3] She received a B.S. degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1994,[4] and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2000 under the supervision of David Harbater.[5]
Career and research
After her doctoral studies, Pries was appointed a National Science Foundation VIGRE post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University for 2000 to 2003. After her post-doc at Columbia, Rachel joined the faculty at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, where she is currently a full professor.[6]
In one of her most cited works, Families of wildly ramified covers of curves,[7] Pries studied smooth Galois covers of curves, ramified over only one point. In a second highly cited paper, Hyperelliptic curves with prescribed p-torsion,[8] Pries and co-author Darren Glass, proved several results regarding the existence of Jacobian varieties having interesting p-torsion as measured in terms of invariants such as the p-rank and the a-number.
Pries serves on the Steering Committee of Women in Number Theory (WIN),[9] a research collaboration community for women mathematicians interested in number theory. She was an editor of Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop (Association for Women in Mathematics Series), which was published by Springer Verlag in 2016.[10]
Honors
Pries was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Her citation read "for contributions to arithmetic geometry, and for service to the mathematical community."[1] Pries was selected as the inaugural lecturer in the Association for Women in Mathematics Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, in 2013.[11] In 2004, Pries was selected as Outstanding Professor in Graduate Instruction by the mathematics graduate students of Colorado State University [12] Pries was elected to the 2023 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics "for supporting the research careers of women through mentorship and advocacy; for her vision and hard work establishing the Women in Numbers workshops and research network; and for broadening the participation of women in mathematics through service and leadership both at her institution and in high-profile national and international programs."[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The AWM Fellows Program: 2023 Class of AWM Fellows". https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2023-awm-fellows/.
- ↑ Girls' Angle Bulletin, Volume 11, Number 6, Girls' Angle Bulletin, August 31, 2018, https://girlsangle.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/girls-angle-bulletin-volume-11-number-6/, retrieved 2020-06-02
- ↑ "Faculty", General Catalog 2019–2020 (Colorado State University), https://catalog.colostate.edu/general-catalog/faculty/#p, retrieved 2020-06-02
- ↑ Rachel Justine Pries at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Rachel Pries, Professor". Department of Mathematics Faculty and Staff. Colorado State University. https://mathematics.colostate.edu/person/?id=1F6F13244A80B33ED017FF7339065CD1&sq=t.
- ↑ Pries, Rachel J. (2002). "Families of wildly ramified covers of curves". Amer. J. Math. 124 (4): 737–768. doi:10.1353/ajm.2002.0024. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3ed0/53205bfab504847977814d405c5a0fb8e787.pdf. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ↑ Glass, Darren; Pries, Rachel (2005). "Hyperelliptic curves with prescribed p-torsion". Manuscripta Math. 117 (3): 299–317. doi:10.1007/s00229-005-0559-0. Bibcode: 2004math......1008G.
- ↑ "Women in Number Theory Steering Committee". https://womeninnumbertheory.org/steering-committee/.
- ↑ Eischen, Ellen; Long, Ling; Pries, Rachel (2016). Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop (Association for Women in Mathematics Series). Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-3319309743.
- ↑ "Distinguished Speaker Series". University of Oregon. http://pages.uoregon.edu/uoawm/speakers.html.
- ↑ "Awards of the Department". Colorado State University. http://www.math.colostate.edu/people/awards.shtml.
External links
- Rachel Pries' website
- Dr. Rachel Pries - Number Theory (2017 video)
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