Karen E. Smith at Michigan

Karen E. Smith

Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Michigan.
Ann Arbor

A brief Bio (written by a student at Agnes Scott college; Caution: it is dated.).
There is also a much longer autobiographical essay available in the book "Complexities: Women in Mathematics," Edited by Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett, published in 2005 by Princeton University Press.

A brief description of Smith's research interests in mathematics (Caution: last update October 2000).

The Hochster Conference and some pictures taken by Manuel Blickle.

Research, Teaching and Professional Service (See also this 2008 photo of Karen's clan from Yogesh's graduation party! Also: me and my buddy Andrey.)

Recent Preprints
Pre-2006 Preprints
Books
Editorial Positions (with instructions how to submit).
Math Reviews of some of Smith's papers.
Courses
Smith's post-docs
Smith's graduate students and Math genealogy
Smith's undergraduate research students
AMS committees and other national service
Papers reviewed by Smith

Professor Smith is a frequent visitor to the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland.
She spent the winter semester 2001 as a Fulbright Professor there, teaching algebraic geometry.

She also recently spent the academic year 2002-2003 academic year serving as an organizer for the Special Year in Commutative Algebra at MSRI in Berkeley CA, supported by the Clay Foundation. Check out the famous special year quilt made by Irena Swanson!

Math Links

Other links

Karen E. Smith's research and teaching activities are partially funded by the National Science Foundation, and have also been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, by the Clay Foundation, and by a US government Fulbright fellowship.

since July 11, 1997.

This web page would not have been possible without the generous help
of the MIT staff, especially Tivon Luker and Larry Nolan.