Andrea Bertozzi (born 1965) is an American mathematician.[1]
Biography
She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from Princeton University, followed by her PhD from Princeton in 1991; her dissertation was titled Existence, Uniqueness, and a Characterization of Solutions to the Contour Dynamics Equation.[1] Prior to joining UCLA in 2003, Bertozzi taught mathematics at the University of Chicago, and then taught mathematics and physics at Duke University.[2] At the University of Chicago she first began to study the mathematics of thin films.[1] At Duke University she was a Maria Goeppert Mayer Distinguished Scholar, and at both the University of Chicago and Duke University she worked in the field of scientific computing.[1] She coauthored the book Vorticity and Incompressible Flow, which was published in 2000.[1]
She is currently employed at UCLA as a Professor of Mathematics and Director of Applied Mathematics.[2] There, among other things, she has worked with Jeffrey Brantingham and other colleagues to apply mathematics to the patterns of urban crime, research which was the cover feature in the March 2, 2010 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[3] Bertozzi also spoke about the mathematics of crime at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[3]
She is the older sister of the chemist Carolyn Bertozzi.[4]
Recognition
In 1995 Bertozzi received a research fellowship from the Sloan Foundation.[1] In 1996 she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the U.S. Office of Naval Research.[5][1] She is featured in the book Encyclopedia of World Scientists, by Elizabeth H. Oakes, published in 2007.[5][1] She was also awarded the 2009 Association for Women in Mathematics-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture, and was elected a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellow in 2010.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Encyclopedia of World Scientists - Elizabeth H. Oakes - Google Books". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
- ^ a b c "List of Visiting Speakers: Andrea L. Bertozzi". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
- ^ a b "Can Math And Science Help Solve Crimes? - Science News". redOrbit. 2010-02-22. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
- ^ "UCLA Math Department Faculty". Retrieved 4 June 2012.
- ^ a b "Encyclopedia of World Scientists - Elizabeth H. Oakes - Google Boeken". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012-10-30.