Karen E. Smith

Contact Info

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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).

Research, Teaching and Professional Service (See also this 2008 photo of Karen's clan from Yogesh's graduation party! )

• 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
• 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!

Other links

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