Katrin Tent

Summary

Katrin Tent is a German mathematician specializing in group theory, the symmetries of groups, algebraic model theory, and finite geometry. She is a professor of mathematics and mathematical logic at the University of Münster.[1]

Katrin Tent
Born1963 (age 60–61)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Kiel, University of Notre Dame
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Münster
ThesisClassifying totally categorical groups (and others) (1994)
Doctoral advisorStephen A. Buechler

Education and career edit

Tent studied mathematics, linguistics, and computer science at the University of Kiel from 1982 to 1988 and, after a year as a visiting student at Western University in Canada, earned a diploma in mathematics in 1989 from the University of Kiel.[2] She moved to the University of Notre Dame in the United States for doctoral study in mathematics, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1994. Her dissertation, Classifying totally categorical groups (and others), was supervised by Steven A. Buechler.[2][3]

After working as a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then at the University of Würzburg, where she completed a habilitation in 2001 with the habilitation thesis Model theory of groups and BN-pairs, and after a brief stint as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, she became a professor of mathematics at Bielefeld University in 2004. She took her present position as a professor of mathematics and mathematical logic at the University of Münster in 2008.[2] Since 2016, she is Vice President of the Deutsche Vereinigung für mathematische Logik und für Grundlagenforschung der exakten Wissenschaften.

Books edit

With Martin Ziegler, Tent is the co-author of a book on model theory, A Course in Model Theory (Lecture Notes in Logic 40, Cambridge University Press, 2012).[4] She is also the editor of Groups and Analysis : The Legacy of Hermann Weyl (London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes 354, Cambridge University Press, 2008),[5] and co-editor of Lectures in Model Theory (with Franziska Jahnke and Daniel Palacín, Münster Lectures in Mathematics, European Mathematical Society, 2018).

References edit

  1. ^ Year of birth from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-02-08
  2. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2020-02-08
  3. ^ Katrin Tent at the Mathematics Genealogy Project  
  4. ^ Reviews of A Course in Model Theory:
    • Evans, David, Mathematical Reviews, MR 2908005{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hart, Bradd (2015), The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 21 (3): 342–343, doi:10.1017/bsl.2015.26, MR 3495355, S2CID 125479753{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Zaldivar, Felipe (September 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America
  5. ^ Review of Groups and Analysis : The Legacy of Hermann Weyl:
    • Berg, Michael (January 2009), "Review", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America

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