Patricia E. Bauman Explained

Patricia E. Bauman is an American mathematician who studies partial differential equations that model the behavior of liquid crystals and superconductors. She is a professor of mathematics at Purdue University.^[1]

Education and career

Bauman received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1982, under the supervision of Eugene Fabes; her dissertation was Properties of Non-Negative Solutions of Second-Order Elliptic Equations and their Adjoints. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and a C. L. E. Moore instructor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the Purdue University faculty.^[2]

Recognition

Bauman was given an AMS Centennial Fellowship for 1994 to 1995.^[3] In 2012, Bauman became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[4]

She was elected chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (SIAG/MS) for 2017–2019.^[5] She is a former AMS Council member at large.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: - Department of Mathematics, Purdue University . Department of Mathematics, Purdue University . 2019-07-02.
2. Web site: Patricia Bauman. Math Alliance. 2020-06-17.
3. Web site: AMS Centennial Fellowships. American Mathematical Society. 2020-06-17.
4. https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
5. Web site: Prof. Bauman elected chair of SIAM Activity Group. Purdue Department of Mathematics. 2020-06-17. January 25, 2017.
6. Web site: AMS Committees . 2023-03-27 . American Mathematical Society . en.