Summary
Rosa C. Orellana is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College.[1][2]
Early life and education edit
Orellana's excitement for mathematics was recognized early, by one of her elementary school teachers.[3] She is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles,[1] and was the first in her family to earn a college degree. Her undergraduate education also included summer research with Kenneth Millett at the University of California, Santa Barbara on knot theory and its applications to biomolecules.[3]
She completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego.[4] Originally intending to continue her study of knot theory, she shifted to algebraic combinatorics after the knot theorist she planned to work with went on leave.[3] Her dissertation, The Hecke Algebra of Type B at Roots of Unity, Markov Traces and Subfactors, was supervised by Hans Wenzl.[4]
Career edit
After completing her doctorate, Orellana became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, supported by a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship,[2][5] before joining Dartmouth as a Wilson Foundation Fellow in 2000.[2][6]
At Dartmouth, she won the John M. Manley Huntington Memorial Award for outstanding research by a newly tenured faculty member, helped found the Dartmouth chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics,[2][6] and founded a sequence of Sonia Kovalevsky Math days to encourage local school girls to continue in mathematics.[6] She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM).[7]
Orellana was a former Council member at large for the American Mathematical Society (AMS) from 2020 to 2022.[8]
References edit
- ^ a b "Rosa C. Orellana", Faculty directory, Dartmouth College, 2 April 2013, retrieved 2019-08-18
- ^ a b c d "Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College", 2013 Election Candidate Statements, Association for Women in Mathematics, 2013, retrieved 2019-08-18
- ^ a b c Slaughter, Jacob, "Running the Numbers: A Biographical Essay on Professor Rose Orellana", 2018 AWM Essay Contest Grand Prize Winner, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2019-08-18
- ^ a b Rosa Orellana at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Rosa C. Orellana", Researcher profiles, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, retrieved 2019-08-18
- ^ a b c "Hispanic Heritage Calendar: Rosa Orellana", Lathisms: Latinxs and Hispanics in Mathematical Sciences, October 2, 2016, retrieved 2019-08-18
- ^ "ICERM - Trustee and Advisory Boards - Trustee & Advisory Boards". icerm.brown.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
- ^ "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
External links edit
- Home page
- Rosa Orellana publications indexed by Google Scholar