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Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars 2024 Greta Panova
Greta Panova, Gabilan Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering and professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California, has been awarded the 2024-2025 AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars. Panova?s research is in Algebraic Combinatorics with connections to Representation Theory, Computational Complexity Theory within Theoretical Computer Science and with Probability and Statistical Mechanics. Separately, she works with a team of molecular biologists on modeling DNA repair dynamics.
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Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars 2023 Jennifer Balakrishnan
Jennifer Balakrishnan, the Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Mathematics at Boston University, has been awarded the 2023-2024 AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars. Balakrishnan's research is motivated by various aspects of the classical and p-adic Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjectures, as well as the problem of algorithmically finding rational points on curves.
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Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars 2022 Bianca Viray
Bianca Viray, a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington, has been awarded the AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars for 2022-2023. An arithmetic geometer, Viray researches rational points on varieties, particularly how a variety's geometric properties influence failures of the local-to-global principle.
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Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars 2021 Helen M Wong
Helen Wong, an associate professor of mathematics at Claremont McKenna College, has been awarded the AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars for 2021-2022. Wong's research is in quantum topology and applications of topology.
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Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars 2020 Karin H. Melnick
Karin Melnick, University of Maryland, College Park, received the Birman Fellowship for the academic year 2020-2021. Melnick's research is on differential-geometric aspects of rigidity
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Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars 2019 Lillian Pierce
Lillian Pierce received the Birman Fellowship for the 2019/2020 academic year in recognition of her research is in analytic number theory and harmonic analysis.
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Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars 2018 Margaret Beck
First award: to Margaret Beck for the 2018-2019 academic year in recognition of her exceptional research on stability problems in partial differential equations and spatially extended dynamical systems.
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