{"id":1564,"date":"2009-03-30T11:09:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:40:14","slug":"mathematician-receives-award-to-fund-collaborative-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2009\/03\/mathematician-receives-award-to-fund-collaborative-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematician Receives Award to Fund Collaborative Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maria Gordina, associate professor of mathematics. Photo by Daniel Buttrey <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maria Gordina, associate professor of mathematics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will spend a semester in residence at Cornell University as the winner of the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize awarded by Cornell and the Association for Women in Mathematics.<\/p>\n

The award will fund her residency to study infinite dimensional spaces, a research project that involves collaborations with a physicist and two other mathematicians, one of whom was her Ph.D. adviser at Cornell.<\/p>\n

Among the questions she will study are the geometry of infinite dimensional curved spaces and random processes in these spaces, such as Brownian motion, a mathematical model used to describe the random movement of particles suspended in a liquid or gas.<\/p>\n

A typical example of an infinite dimensional curved space is a \u201cloop group,\u201d which can be visualized as many loops drawn around a sphere or any other curved object.<\/p>\n

The Michler prize is named in memory of a young mathematician at the University of North Texas who died in 2000 in a tragic accident when she was a visiting scholar at Northeastern University.<\/p>\n

Ruth Michler\u2019s parents established the prize at Cornell because Michler was born in Ithaca when her father, a German mathematician, was visiting the university.<\/p>\n

The $45,000 prize honors mid-career faculty women in mathematics and provides an opportunity for them to focus on research, with no teaching obligations.<\/p>\n

Currently, Gordina is teaching a graduate class in CLAS on Lie algebras and Lie groups, one of the topics that she studied for her Ph.D. at Cornell under Professor Leonard Gross.<\/p>\n

She came to UConn in 2003 after postdoctoral fellowships at McMaster University in Canada and the University of California at San Diego.<\/p>\n

Before coming to the U.S. from Russia in 1992, Gordina, who is also known as Masha, was an assistant professor at the Leningrad Electro-Technical Institute.<\/p>\n

While at UConn, she has been a Humboldt Research Fellow for three summers. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellows are chosen to conduct research at a university in Germany. Gordina worked with Professor Michael R\u00f6ckner at Bielefeld University.<\/p>\n

Gordina\u2019s husband, Alexander Teplyaev, who is also an associate professor of mathematics at UConn, is currently a Humboldt Fellow.<\/p>\n

Gordina\u2019s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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