Elizabeth Meckes
Elizabeth Samantha Meckes (1980–2020)[1] was an American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Her research included work on Stein's method for bounding the distance between probability distributions and on random matrices. She was a professor of mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistics at Case Western Reserve University.[2] She died in December 2020 after a brief battle with cancer.[3]
Education and career
[edit]Meckes went to Case Western Reserve University as an undergraduate, and graduated summa cum laude in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a minor in German. She remained at Case for a master's degree, which she completed in 2002. Her master's thesis, Harmonic Maps Between Graphs, was supervised by E. Jerome Benveniste.[4]
Next, Meckes became a doctoral student of Persi Diaconis at Stanford University. She completed her Ph.D. there in 2006; her dissertation was An Infinitesimal Version of Stein’s Method.[4][5]
After postdoctoral research at Cornell University and the American Institute of Mathematics, Meckes returned to Case as a faculty member in 2007. She was tenured in 2013 and promoted to full professor in 2018.[4]
Books
[edit]With Mark W. Meckes, Elizabeth Meckes wrote the textbook Linear Algebra (Cambridge University Press, 2018).[6] She is also the author of The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups (Cambridge University Press, 2019).[7]
Recognition
[edit]In 2019, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) recognized Meckes as an IMS Fellow, "for contributions to Stein’s method and to random matrix theory".[8] She was twice named a Simons Fellow in Mathematics, in 2013 and 2020. She was a Fellow of the American Institute of Mathematics, 2006–2011.
In 2023, Case Western Reserve University began hosting an annual seminar series in her honor.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Birth year from Czech National Library, retrieved 2019-09-02
- ^ Elizabeth Meckes, Professor, Case Western Reserve University, retrieved 2019-09-02
- ^ "Remembering Professor of Mathematics Elizabeth Meckes", The Daily, Case Western Reserve University, December 18, 2020, retrieved 2022-01-18
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2019-09-02
- ^ Elizabeth Meckes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Hunacek, Mark (October 2018), "Review of Linear Algebra", MAA Reviews
- ^ Reviews of The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups:
- Arvanitoyeorgos, Andreas, zbMATH, Zbl 1433.22001
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- Arvanitoyeorgos, Andreas, zbMATH, Zbl 1433.22001
- ^ 2019 IMS Fellows Announced, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, May 14, 2019
- ^ The Annual Elizabeth S. Meckes Memorial Lecture, retrieved 2024-04-02
Further reading
[edit]- "Formula for Success: Drawn by new courses and intriguing problems, students are diving into mathematics", Stanford Magazine, November–December 2004
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Elizabeth Meckes publications indexed by Google Scholar
