Awards & Winners

Karen Uhlenbeck

Date of Birth 24-August-1942
Place of Birth Cleveland
(United States of America, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Area code 216)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Karen K. Uhlenbeck
Profession Mathematician
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck is a professor and Sid W. Richardson Regents Chairholder in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas in Austin. Uhlenbeck received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, and a M.A. and Ph.D. 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.

Awards by Karen Uhlenbeck

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2000


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For her many pioneering contributions to global geometry that resulted in advances in mathematical physics and the theory of partial differential equations. Her research accomplishments are matched by her leadership and passionate involvement in mathematics training and education.)