Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS was born on August 24,1942 and is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis.
18 Facts About Karen Uhlenbeck
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Karen Uhlenbeck is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W Richardson Foundation Regents Chair.
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Karen Uhlenbeck is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University.
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Karen Uhlenbeck donated half of the prize money to organizations which promote more engagement of women in research mathematics.
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Karen Uhlenbeck was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to engineer Arnold Keskulla and schoolteacher and artist Carolyn Windeler Keskulla.
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Karen Uhlenbeck began her graduate studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, and married biophysicist Olke C Uhlenbeck in 1965.
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From 1979 to 1981 Karen Uhlenbeck served on the Council of the AMS as a Member at Large.
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Karen Uhlenbeck moved again to the University of Chicago in 1983.
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Karen Uhlenbeck is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, a visiting associate at the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University.
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Karen Uhlenbeck is one of the founders of the field of geometric analysis, a discipline that uses differential geometry to study the solutions to differential equations and vice versa.
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Karen Uhlenbeck has contributed to topological quantum field theory and integrable systems.
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Karen Uhlenbeck is a self-described "messy reader" and "messy thinker", with boxes of books stacked on her desk at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.
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In spontaneous remarks made to Institute colleagues after winning the Abel Prize in March 2019, Karen Uhlenbeck noted that for lack of prominent female role models during her apprenticeship in the field of mathematics, she had instead emulated chef Julia Child: "She knew how to pick the turkey up off the floor and serve it".
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Karen Uhlenbeck donated half of the cash prize to two organizations, the EDGE Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study's Women and Mathematics Program.
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Karen Uhlenbeck became a MacArthur Fellow in 1983 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985.
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Karen Uhlenbeck was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1986.
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Karen Uhlenbeck became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001, an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society in 2008, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
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Karen Uhlenbeck was the Noether Lecturer of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1988.