Karen Uhlenbeck (born 1942)
Born 1942 CE.
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS (born August 24, 1942) is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair. Since 2019 she has been a distinguished visiting professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, on an appointment running to 2027, and she is a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University. Uhlenbeck was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007. In 2023 she was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, listed with her affiliation as distinguished visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.. She won the 2019 Abel Prize for "her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory, and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics." She is the first, and so far only, woman to win the prize since its inception in 2003.
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