Karen Uhlenbeck
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair.
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- Born in
- Cleveland
- Educated at
- Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data ScienceBrandeis UniversityUniversity of Michigan
- Awards
- 🏆 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research🏆 Abel Prize🏆 National Medal of Science
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Richard Palais
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Caio José Colletti Negreiros📖 Robert B. Lockhart📖 Bonita Hart Driscoll📖 Steven Sedlacek📖 James Wade McDonald
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1942
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