Kate Okikiolu
Kate Adebola Okikiolu | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1965 (age 58–59) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge UCLA |
| Awards | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical analysis Elliptic operators |
| Institutions | Princeton University UCSD Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | The Analogue of the Strong Szego Limit Theorem on the Torus and the 3-Sphere (1991) |
| Doctoral advisors | Sun-Yung Alice Chang John B. Garnett |
Kate Adebola Okikiolu (born 1965) is a British mathematician.[2] She is known for her work with elliptic differential operators as well as her work with inner-city children.[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Okikiolu was born in 1965 in England. Her father was George Olatokunbo Okikiolu, a renowned Nigerian mathematician[4] and the most published black mathematician on record.[5] Her British mother was a high school mathematics teacher. Okikiolu received a B.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1987. In 1991 she earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles,[6] for her thesis The Analogue of the Strong Szego Limit Theorem on the Torus and the 3-Sphere.[5][7][8]
Career
[edit]Based on her PhD work, Okikiolu resolved a conjecture of Peter Wilcox Jones concerning a continuous version of the travelling salesman problem.[9] in her paper Characterization of subsets of rectifiable curves in Rn.[10] Okikiolu was an instructor and later assistant professor at Princeton University from 1993 to 1995. She then worked as a visiting assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined the faculty at the University of California at San Diego in 1995.[7] In 2011 she joined the Mathematics Department at Johns Hopkins University.[11]
She was an invited speaker at the 1996 meeting of the Association of Women in Mathematics.[12] She also delivered the Claytor-Woodard lecture at the 2002 meeting of the National Association of Mathematicians, an organization for African-American mathematicians.[7]
Honors and awards
[edit]In 1997, Okikiolu won a Sloan Research Fellowship,[13] becoming the first black recipient of this fellowship. In 1997 she also was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers[14] for both her mathematical research and her development of mathematics curricula for inner-city school children. This award is given to only 60 scientists and engineers each year and has a prize of $500,000.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Kate Okikiolu", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ "Katherine Okikiolu - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora". www.math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ "Katherine Okikiolu - Biography". Maths History. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ^ "Katherine Okikiolu - Biography". Maths History. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
- ^ a b Paulus Gerdes (2007). African Doctorates in Mathematics. African Mathematical Union. Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa. p. 26. ISBN 9781430318675.
- ^ "Katherine Okikiolu - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora". www.math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
- ^ a b c d Spangenburg, Ray; Moser, Kit (2003). African Americans in science, math, and invention. New York, NY: Facts on File. ISBN 0816048061.
- ^ Kate Okikiolu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Williams, Scott W. (2008). "Black Women in Mathematics". Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ^ Okikiolu, Kathleen (1992). "Characterization of subsets of rectifiable curves in Rn" (PDF). J. London Math. Soc. 46 (2): 336–348. doi:10.1112/jlms/s2-46.2.336. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ "Meet Katherine Okikiolu". The Stemettes Zine. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
- ^ "Women and Minorities in Mathematics". cs.appstate.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
- ^ Past Fellows, Sloan Foundation, retrieved 2019-09-09
- ^ "The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details | NSF - National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
External links
[edit]- Faculty page at Johns Hopkins
- Theorems by Kate Okikiolu at Theorem of the Day.
- "Katherine Okikiolu". Black Women in Mathematics. University of California.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Kate Okikiolu", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Black British women academics
- British women academics
- Black British academics
- 20th-century British mathematicians
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- English people of Nigerian descent
- English people of Yoruba descent
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- University of California, San Diego faculty
- British emigrants to the United States
- Johns Hopkins University faculty
- Princeton University faculty
- Nigerian women academics
- African-American mathematicians
- African-American women mathematicians
- 20th-century American women mathematicians
- 21st-century American women mathematicians
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- 21st-century African-American women
- Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers