18 Facts About Karen Vogtmann

Karen Vogtmann was inspired to pursue mathematics by a National Science Foundation summer program for high school students at the University of California, Berkeley.

Karen Vogtmann then obtained a PhD in mathematics, from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977.

Karen Vogtmann then held positions at University of Michigan, Brandeis University and Columbia University.

Karen Vogtmann has been a faculty member at Cornell University since 1984, and she became a full professor at Cornell in 1994.

Karen Vogtmann is currently a professor of mathematics at Warwick, and a Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Cornell.

Karen Vogtmann has been the vice-president of the American Mathematical Society.

Karen Vogtmann is a former editorial board member of the journal Algebraic and Geometric Topology and a former associate editor of Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.

Karen Vogtmann is a member of the ArXiv advisory board.

Since 1986 Karen Vogtmann has been a co-organizer of the annual conference called the Cornell Topology Festival that usually takes places at Cornell University each May.

Karen Vogtmann gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain, in August 2006.

Karen Vogtmann gave the 2007 annual AWM Noether Lecture titled "Automorphisms of Free Groups, Outer Space and Beyond" at the annual meeting of American Mathematical Society in New Orleans in January 2007.

Karen Vogtmann was selected to deliver the Noether Lecture for "her fundamental contributions to geometric group theory; in particular, to the study of the automorphism group of a free group".

Karen Vogtmann became a member of the Academia Europaea in 2020.

Karen Vogtmann was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.

Karen Vogtmann received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2014.

Karen Vogtmann received the Humboldt Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in 2014.

Karen Vogtmann gave a plenary talk at the 2016 European Congress of Mathematics in Berlin.

For example, Hatcher and Karen Vogtmann obtained a number of homological stability results for Out and Aut.