Susan Howson

Susan Howson (born 1973 ) is a British mathematician who was concerned with the number theory for elliptic curve cryptography. She won the Adams Prize was the first woman.

Howson in 1998 his doctorate under John Coates at the University of Cambridge ( Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves for p- adic Lie extensions ). She taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, the University of Nottingham and eventually to 2005 at the University of Oxford.

In 2002 she was awarded the Adams Prize (then she was a lecturer in Nottingham and Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow of the Royal Society).

Works

• Structure of central torsion Iwasawa modules. Bull Soc. Math France 130 (2002), no.4, 507-535.
• Euler characteristics as invariants of Iwasawa modules. Proc. London Math Soc. ( 3) 85 (2002 ), no 3, 634-658.
• With Coates: Euler characteristics and elliptic curves. II J. Math Soc. Japan 53 (2001 ), no 1, 175-235.
• With Bali Rochester: Note on Nakayama 's lemma for compact Λ -modules. Asian J. Math 1 (1997 ), no 2, 224-229.
• With Coates: Euler characteristics and elliptic curves. Elliptic curves and modular forms (Washington, DC, 1996). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 (1997 ), no 21, 11115-11117.