Izabella Łaba (born 1966)[1] is a Polish-Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Her main research specialties are harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics.
Izabella Łaba | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Known for | Harmonic Analysis, Geometric Measure Theory, Additive Combinatorics |
| Awards | Coxeter-James Prize (2004) Krieger-Nelson Prize (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia |
Professional career edit
Łaba earned a master's degree in 1986 from the University of Wrocław.[2] She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1994, under the supervision of Israel Michael Sigal,[2][3] after which she was a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Los Angeles and then an assistant professor at Princeton University before moving to UBC in 2000.[2]
She is one of three founding editors of the Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics.[4]
Contributions edit
Łaba's thesis research proved the asymptotic completeness of many n-body systems in the presence of a constant magnetic field.[2][5] While at UCLA, with Nets Katz and Terence Tao, she made important contributions to the theory of Kakeya sets, including the best known lower bound on these sets in three-dimensional Euclidean spaces.[2][5] Her more recent work concerns harmonic analysis, periodic tilings, and Falconer's conjecture on sets of distances of points.[5]
Awards and honours edit
Łaba was the 2004 winner of the Coxeter–James Prize, an annual prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society for outstanding young mathematicians.[2] In 2008, the CMS honoured her again with their Krieger–Nelson Prize, given to an outstanding woman in mathematics.[5]
In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
References edit
- ^ Birth date from Wolff, Thomas H. (2003), Łaba, Izabella; Shubin, Carol (eds.), Lectures on harmonic analysis, University Lecture Series, vol. 29, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0-8218-3449-5, MR 2003254, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data, p. iv.
- ^ a b c d e f CMS 2004 Coxeter-James Prize: Dr. Izabella Łaba (University of British Columbia), Canadian Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-28.
- ^ Izabella Laba at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Editorial board, Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics, retrieved 2013-01-28.
- ^ a b c d CMS 2008 Krieger-Nelson Prize: Dr. Izabella Łaba (University of British Columbia), retrieved 2013-01-28.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
External links edit
- Home page
- The Accidental Mathematician, Łaba's blog