Amie Wilkinson

Anne Marie " Amie " Wilkinson ( born April 4, 1968) is an American mathematician.

Life and work

Amie Wilkinson was the daughter of the lawyer Ruth E. VanDemark and the computer scientist Leland Wilkinson and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. She studied at Harvard University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in June 1989. In May 1995, she was with the work Stable Ergodicity of the Time -One Map of a Geodesic Flow at the University of California, Berkeley to the Ph.D. doctorate. Your doctor father was Charles C. Pugh. From 1995 to 1996 she was a Benjamin Peirce Instructor at Harvard University. She then moved to Northwestern University, where she was Assistant Professor Boas (1996-1999), Assistant Professor (1999-2002), associate professor (2002-2005) and finally professor in 2005. She is mathematics professor at the University of Chicago. A visiting professor led her to the University of Burgundy (2002 and 2003). She was also a visiting scientist at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques ( 1993, 1996 and 1998).

Wilkinson deals with ergodic theory and smooth dynamical systems, with the geometry and regularity of foliations and effects of discrete groups on manifolds. 2011 Ruth Lyttle Satter she was awarded the Prize in Mathematics of the American Mathematical Society " for their remarkable contributions to ergodic theory of partially hyperbolic dynamical systems ". Was particularly commended the work of Keith Burns and Amie Wilkinson to the stability of partially hyperbolic systems. In a series of papers she dealt with centralizers of C1 - diffeomorphisms, sparking # 12 of Stephen Smale list of unsolved mathematical problems for the case of C1 - diffeomorphisms.

Wilkinson is married to the mathematician Benson color since 1996 and has two children.