Julia Wolf
Julia Wolf | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Clare College, Cambridge University of Paris-Sud |
| Thesis | Arithmetic Structure in Sets of Integers (2007) |
| Doctoral advisor | Timothy Gowers |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Arithmetic combinatorics |
| Website | www |
Julia Wolf is a British mathematician specialising in arithmetic combinatorics who was the 2016 winner of the Anne Bennett Prize of the London Mathematical Society.[1][2] She is currently a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge.[3]
Education and career
[edit]Wolf writes that her childhood ambition was to become a carpenter, and that she became attracted to science only after subscribing to Scientific American as a teenager.[4]
She read mathematics at Clare College, Cambridge, completing the Mathematical Tripos in 2003.[3] She remained at Cambridge for graduate study, and completed her PhD there in 2008. Her dissertation, Arithmetic Structure in Sets of Integers, was supervised by Timothy Gowers.[3][5] She was also mentored in her doctoral studies by Ben Green, whom she met when he was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge from 2001 to 2005.[6]
Since earning her doctorate she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, Triennial assistant professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Hadamard associate professor at the École Polytechnique in Paris (earning a habilitation at the University of Paris-Sud in 2012), and Heilbronn reader in combinatorics and number theory at the University of Bristol.[3] She returned to Cambridge as a university lecturer in 2018,[3][7] and was a Fellow of Clare College from 2018 to 2022.[3]
Recognition
[edit]In 2016 the London Mathematical Society gave Wolf their Anne Bennett Prize "in recognition of her outstanding contributions to additive number theory, combinatorics and harmonic analysis and to the mathematical community."[1][2] The award citation particularly cited her work with Gowers on counting solutions to systems of linear equations over abelian groups, and her work on quadratic analogues of the Goldreich–Levin theorem.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Dr Julia Wolf wins LMS Anne Bennett Prize, University of Bristol School of Mathematics, 8 July 2016, retrieved 2018-09-09
- ^ a b c "Prizewinners 2016", Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 48 (6): 1051–1058, December 2016, doi:10.1112/blms/bdw065, S2CID 247665424
- ^ a b c d e f Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2018-09-09
- ^ Parkes, Pamela (28 September 2015), "Bristol women at the forefront of science", Bristol 24/7
- ^ Julia Wolf at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Green, Ben, Current and former students, retrieved 2018-09-09
- ^ "Elections, appointments, reappointments, and grant of title", Cambridge University Reporter, 6509, 6 June 2018
