16 Facts About Georgia Benkart

Georgia McClure Benkart was an American mathematician who was known for her work in the structure and representation theory of Lie algebras and related algebraic structures.

Georgia Benkart published over 130 journal articles and co-authored three American Mathematical Society memoirs in four broad categories: modular Lie algebras; combinatorics of Lie algebra representations; graded algebras and superalgebras; and quantum groups and related structures.

Georgia Benkart completed her doctoral work at Yale under Nathan Jacobson and wrote a dissertation entitled Inner Ideals and the Structure of Lie Algebras.

Georgia Benkart was awarded a PhD in mathematics from the Yale University in 1974.

Georgia Benkart held visiting positions at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the Aspen Center for Physics, and the University of Virginia.

Georgia Benkart died on April 29,2022, aged 74, from undisclosed causes in Madison, Wisconsin.

Georgia Benkart made a contribution to the classification of simple modular Lie algebras.

Georgia Benkart's work with J Marshall Osborn on toroidal rank-one Lie algebras became one of the building blocks of the classification.

Georgia Benkart served on several editorial boards including the boards of the American Mathematical Society for Surveys and Monographs and Abstracts, Communications in Algebra, and the Journal of Algebra.

Georgia Benkart served as the associate secretary of the American Mathematical Society for the Central Section from 2010 to 2020, and was a member of the governing council in 1995 and from 2010 to 2021.

Georgia Benkart was active in the Association for Women in Mathematics over many years, served as chair of the membership portfolio and the nominating committee, and helped plan the first AWM Research Symposium, which was a celebration of the 40th anniversary of AWM.

Georgia Benkart received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Georgia Benkart was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the inaugural class of 2013.

Georgia Benkart was elected and served as president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2009 to 2011.

Georgia Benkart was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural 2018 class.

In 2022, a tribute to her contributions to her field, "Gems from the Work of Georgia Benkart", appeared in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.