Summary
Chelsea Walton is a mathematician whose research interests include noncommutative algebra, noncommutative algebraic geometry, symmetry in quantum mechanics, Hopf algebras, and quantum groups. She is an associate professor at Rice University and a Sloan Research Fellow.[1]
Chelsea Walton | |
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 Walton at Oberwolfach in 2014 | |
| Born | 1983 (age 40–41) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Rice University |
| Thesis | On Degenerations and Deformations of Sklyanin Algebras (2011) |
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| Website | math |
Education and career edit
Walton is African-American,[2] originally from Detroit, Michigan,[3] and was educated in the Detroit public schools.[4] As a child she made a letter frequency table from her children's dictionary,[1] and as a high school student, seeking a way to "do logic puzzles all day and get paid for this",[2] she was already planning a career as a mathematics professor.[3]
She graduated from Michigan State University in 2005,[5] and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2011. Her dissertation, On Degenerations and Deformations of Sklyanin Algebras,[6] was jointly supervised by Toby Stafford and Karen E. Smith,[7] and based in part on her work as a visiting student at the University of Manchester, where Stafford had moved.[8]
Walton did postdoctoral research at the University of Washington and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and became a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2012 to 2015.[8] She came to Temple University as Selma Lee Bloch Brown Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 2015 [1]. She moved to the University of Illinois in 2018.[5][4] She joined the faculty at Rice University in 2020.[9]
Recognition edit
Walton was named a Sloan Fellow in 2017, becoming the fourth African-American to win a Sloan Fellowship in mathematics.[1] Walton was also recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.[2] In 2018 she won the André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson geometry, the first woman to be awarded this prize.[10] The award citation noted her research on Sklyanin algebras in Poisson geometry, on the actions of Hopf algebras, and on the universal enveloping algebra of the Witt algebra.[11]
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Temple mathematician Chelsea Walton named a 2017 Sloan Research Fellow", Temple Now, Temple University, March 7, 2017
- ^ a b c "Chelsea Walton", Mathematically Gifted and Black: Black History Month 2017 Honoree, retrieved 2018-10-18
- ^ a b Paoletta, Rae (March 8, 2017), "These Black Female Mathematicians Should Be Stars in the Blockbusters of Tomorrow", Gizmodo
- ^ a b Readdy, Margaret A.; Taylor, Christine (March 2018), "Chelsea Walton" (PDF), Women's History Month, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 65 (3): 296–297
- ^ a b Bursztynsky, Jessica; Evensen, Dave (September 13, 2018), New faculty join the College of LAS, University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2018-10-19
- ^ Walton, C. M. (2011). On degenerations and deformations of Sklyanin algebras (Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan).
- ^ Chelsea Walton at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-07-01
- ^ Chelsea Walton, retrieved 2020-07-06
- ^ Chelsea Walton and Brent Prym win 2018 André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson Geometry, International Mathematical Union Committee for Women in Mathematics, August 20, 2018
- ^ André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson geometry (PDF), Fields Institute, 2018, retrieved 2018-10-19
Further reading edit
- Diaz-Lopez, Alexander (February 2018), "Chelsea Walton Interview" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 65 (2): 164–166, doi:10.1090/noti1631
External links edit
- Home page