OFFICE HOURS Winter 2012: Mondays 3:10--4, Thursdays 12--1, and by appointment.
Professor Smith is a frequent
visitor to the
University of Jyvaskyla in Finland.
She spent the winter semesters 2001 and 2010 there, among other visits.
Research, Teaching and Professional Service
A brief description of Smith's research interests in mathematics (Caution: not necessarily recent).
A brief Bio and another longer one, neither of which was approved by me, but mostly accurate.
For more information on Karen's life and career up to 2002, see the longer autobiographical essay in the book "Complexities: Women in Mathematics," Edited by Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett, published in 2005 by Princeton University Press.
The Hochster Conference and some pictures taken by Manuel Blickle.
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!
This web page would not have been possible without
the generous help
of the MIT staff, especially Tivon Luker and Larry Nolan.