Rachel Justine Pries is an American mathematician whose research focuses on arithmetic geometry and number theory. She is a professor at Colorado State University and both a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[1] and a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[2]
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Nationality | American |
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Fields | Mathematics |
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Thesis | Formal patching and deformation of wildly ramified covers of curves (2000) |
Doctoral advisor | David Harbater |
Website | http://www.math.colostate.edu/~pries/ |
Pries was a student at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3] She received a B.S. degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1994,[4] and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2000 under the supervision of David Harbater.[5]
After her doctoral studies, Pries was appointed a National Science Foundation VIGRE post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University for 2000 to 2003. After her post-doc at Columbia, Rachel joined the faculty at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, where she is currently a full professor.[6]
In one of her most cited works, Families of wildly ramified covers of curves,[7] Pries studied smooth Galois covers of curves, ramified over only one point. In a second highly cited paper, Hyperelliptic curves with prescribed p-torsion,[8] Pries and co-author Darren Glass, proved several results regarding the existence of Jacobian varieties having interesting p-torsion as measured in terms of invariants such as the p-rank and the a-number.
Pries serves on the Steering Committee of Women in Number Theory (WIN),[9] a research collaboration community for women mathematicians interested in number theory. She was an editor of Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop (Association for Women in Mathematics Series), which was published by Springer Verlag in 2016.[10]
Pries was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Her citation read "for contributions to arithmetic geometry, and for service to the mathematical community."[1] Pries was selected as the inaugural lecturer in the Association for Women in Mathematics Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, in 2013.[11] In 2004, Pries was selected as Outstanding Professor in Graduate Instruction by the mathematics graduate students of Colorado State University [12] Pries was elected to the 2023 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics "for supporting the research careers of women through mentorship and advocacy; for her vision and hard work establishing the Women in Numbers workshops and research network; and for broadening the participation of women in mathematics through service and leadership both at her institution and in high-profile national and international programs."[2]