Karen Uhlenbeck

Karen Uhlenbeck
Karen Uhlenbeck née Keskulla
Born	24 August 1942 Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Residence	USA
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	University of Chicago Northwestern University University of Texas at Austin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alma mater	Brandeis University University of Michigan
Doctoral advisor	Richard Sheldon Palais
Known for	Calculus of variations
Influences	Shing-Tung Yau
Notable awards	MacArthur Prize Fellowship National Medal of Science
Notes She was the wife of the biophysicist Olke Cornelis Uhlenbeck and the daughter-in-law of the physicist George Uhlenbeck.

Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (born August 24, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a professor and Sid W. Richardson Regents Chairholder in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas in Austin. In 1988 she was selected to be a Noether Lecturer. In 2000, she became a recipient of the National Medal of Science. In 2007 she won the American Mathematical Society Steele Prize and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. She has also been a MacArthur Fellow.

Uhlenbeck received her B.A. (1964) from the University of Michigan, and a M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1968) from Brandeis University under the supervision of Richard Palais. Her doctoral dissertation was titled The Calculus of Variations and Global Analysis. She participates or has participated in research in the fields of geometric partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, gauge theory, integrable systems, Virasoro actions, nonlinear waves, and nonlinear Schrödinger equations.

External links

• Karen K. Uhlenbeck's home page. Accessed 18 July 2009.
• "Karen Uhlenbeck", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Karen Uhlenbeck", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
• Karen Uhlenbeck at the Mathematics Genealogy Project