Biography:Agata Smoktunowicz
Agata Smoktunowicz | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 12, 1973 |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences (PhD) |
| Awards | Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society (2006) European Mathematical Society Prize (2008) Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize (2009) Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2009) Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | Radicals of polynomial rings (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edmund Puczyłowski |
Agata Smoktunowicz FRSE (born 12 October 1973) is a Polish mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Edinburgh. Her research is in abstract algebra.[1][2]
Contributions
Smoktunowicz's contributions to mathematics include constructing noncommutative nil rings, solving a "famous problem" formulated in 1970 by Irving Kaplansky.[1][3] She proved the Artin–Stafford gap conjecture according to which the Gelfand–Kirillov dimension of a graded domain cannot fall within the open interval (2,3).[1][4] She also found an example of a nil ideal of a ring R that does not lift to a nil ideal of the polynomial ring R[X], disproving a conjecture of Amitsur and hinting that the Köthe conjecture might be false.[5][6][7]
Awards and honours
Smoktunowicz was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006.[1] She won the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 2006, the European Mathematical Society Prize in 2008, and the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in 2009.[1] In 2009, she was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,[8] and in 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[9] She also won the Polish Academy of Sciences annual research prize in 2018.[10]
Education and career
Smoktunowicz earned a master's degree from the University of Warsaw in 1997, a PhD in 1999 from the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a habilitation in 2007, again from the Polish Academy of Sciences. After temporary positions at Yale University and the University of California, San Diego, she joined the University of Edinburgh in 2005, and was promoted to professor there in 2007.[2]
Selected publications
- Smoktunowicz, Agata (2000), "Polynomial rings over nil rings need not be nil", Journal of Algebra 233 (2): 427–436, doi:10.1006/jabr.2000.8451.
- Huh, Chan; Lee, Yang; Smoktunowicz, Agata (2002), "Armendariz rings and semicommutative rings", Communications in Algebra 30 (2): 751–761, doi:10.1081/AGB-120013179.
- Smoktunowicz, Agata (2002), "A simple nil ring exists", Communications in Algebra 30 (1): 27–59, doi:10.1081/AGB-120006478.
- Smoktunowicz, Agata (2006), "There are no graded domains with GK dimension strictly between 2 and 3", Inventiones Mathematicae 164 (3): 635–640, doi:10.1007/s00222-005-0489-1, Bibcode: 2006InMat.164..635S.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Agata Smoktunowicz , European Women in Mathematics, retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Currculum vitae , retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ↑ (Smoktunowicz 2002). For the attribution to Kaplansky, see MR1880660.
- ↑ (Smoktunowicz 2006).
- ↑ (Smoktunowicz 2000).
- ↑ Lam, T.Y., A First Course in Noncommutative Rings (2001), p.171.
- ↑ Nielsen, Pace P. (2013), "Simplifying Smoktunowicz's extraordinary example", Communications in Algebra 41 (11): 4339–4350, doi:10.1080/00927872.2012.695838.
- ↑ Fellows , Royal Society of Edinburgh, retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ↑ "Agata Smoktunowicz - Prizes - Edinburgh Research Explorer". https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/agata-smoktunowicz(d110ddda-8259-4c1b-9af5-dbf262f12b4d)/prizes.html.
 |  |
