Rachel Justine Pries is an American mathematician whose research focuses on arithmetic geometry and number theory. She is a professor at Colorado State University and both a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[1] and a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[2]
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.jpg) Pries in 2007 | |
| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Formal patching and deformation of wildly ramified covers of curves (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Harbater |
| Website | http://www.math.colostate.edu/~pries/ |
Education
editPries was a student at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3] She received a B.S. degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1994,[4] and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2000 under the supervision of David Harbater.[5]
Career and research
editAfter her doctoral studies, Pries was appointed a National Science Foundation VIGRE post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University for 2000 to 2003. After her post-doc at Columbia, Rachel joined the faculty at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, where she is currently a full professor.[6]
In one of her most cited works, Families of wildly ramified covers of curves,[7] Pries studied smooth Galois covers of curves, ramified over only one point. In a second highly cited paper, Hyperelliptic curves with prescribed p-torsion,[8] Pries and co-author Darren Glass, proved several results regarding the existence of Jacobian varieties having interesting p-torsion as measured in terms of invariants such as the p-rank and the a-number.
Pries serves on the Steering Committee of Women in Number Theory (WIN),[9] a research collaboration community for women mathematicians interested in number theory. She was an editor of Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop (Association for Women in Mathematics Series), which was published by Springer Verlag in 2016.[10]
Honors
editPries was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Her citation read "for contributions to arithmetic geometry, and for service to the mathematical community."[1] Pries was selected as the inaugural lecturer in the Association for Women in Mathematics Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, in 2013.[11] In 2004, Pries was selected as Outstanding Professor in Graduate Instruction by the mathematics graduate students of Colorado State University [12] Pries was elected to the 2023 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics "for supporting the research careers of women through mentorship and advocacy; for her vision and hard work establishing the Women in Numbers workshops and research network; and for broadening the participation of women in mathematics through service and leadership both at her institution and in high-profile national and international programs."[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". ams.org. American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ^ a b "The AWM Fellows Program: 2023 Class of AWM Fellows". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ Girls' Angle Bulletin, Volume 11, Number 6, Girls' Angle Bulletin, August 31, 2018, retrieved 2020-06-02
- ^ "Faculty", General Catalog 2019–2020, Colorado State University, retrieved 2020-06-02
- ^ Rachel Justine Pries at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Rachel Pries, Professor". Department of Mathematics Faculty and Staff. Colorado State University. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ Pries, Rachel J. (2002). "Families of wildly ramified covers of curves" (PDF). Amer. J. Math. 124 (4): 737–768. doi:10.1353/ajm.2002.0024. S2CID 18044517. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ^ Glass, Darren; Pries, Rachel (2005). "Hyperelliptic curves with prescribed p-torsion". Manuscripta Math. 117 (3): 299–317. arXiv:math/0401008. Bibcode:2004math......1008G. doi:10.1007/s00229-005-0559-0. S2CID 6649601.
- ^ "Women in Number Theory Steering Committee". Women in Number Theory. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ Eischen, Ellen; Long, Ling; Pries, Rachel (2016). Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop (Association for Women in Mathematics Series). Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-3319309743.
- ^ "Distinguished Speaker Series". Association for Women in Mathematics, University of Oregon. University of Oregon. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ "Awards of the Department". Colorado State University Mathematics Department. Colorado State University. Archived from the original on 23 November 2017. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
External links
edit- Rachel Pries' website
- Dr. Rachel Pries - Number Theory (2017 video)