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Krystyna Kuperberg

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Krystyna M. Kuperberg
Krystyna Kuperberg in 1990
Born (1944-07-17) July 17, 1944 (age 80)
Tarnów, Poland
NationalityPolish, American
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw (M.S.)
Rice University (Ph.D.)
Known fortopology, dynamical systems
AwardsAlfred Jurzykowski Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsAuburn University
Doctoral advisorsKarol Borsuk
William Jaco

Krystyna M. Kuperberg (born Krystyna M. Trybulec; 17 July 1944) is a Polish-American mathematician who currently works as a professor of mathematics at Auburn University and is the former Alumni Professor of Mathematics there.[1][2][3]

Early life and family

Her parents, Jan W. and Barbara H. Trybulec, were pharmacists and owned a pharmacy in Tarnów. Her older brother is Andrzej Trybulec. Her husband Włodzimierz Kuperberg and her son Greg Kuperberg are also mathematicians,[2][3] while her daughter Anna Kuperberg is a photographer.[3][4]

Education and career

After attending high school in Gdańsk, she entered the University of Warsaw in 1962, where she studied mathematics. Her first mathematics course was taught by Andrzej Mostowski; later she attended topology lectures of Karol Borsuk and became fascinated by topology.[2][3]

After obtaining her undergraduate degree, Kuperberg began graduate studies at Warsaw under Borsuk, but stopped after earning a master's degree.[2][3] She left Poland in 1969 with her young family to live in Sweden, then moved to the United States in 1972.[1][2][3] She finished her Ph.D. in 1974, from Rice University, under the supervision of William Jaco.[2][5][3] In the same year, both she and her husband were appointed to the faculty of Auburn University.[2][3]

Contributions

In 1987 she solved a problem of Bronisław Knaster concerning bi-homogeneity of continua.[2][3] In the 1980s she became interested in fixed points and topological aspects of dynamical systems. In 1989 Kuperberg and Coke Reed solved a problem posed by Stan Ulam in the Scottish Book.[6] The solution to that problem led to her well-known 1993 work in which she constructed a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture.[1][2][3] She has since continued to work in dynamical systems.[3]

Recognition

In 1995 Kuperberg received the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize from the Kościuszko Foundation.[2][3] Her major lectures include an American Mathematical Society Plenary Lecture in March 1995, a Mathematical Association of America Plenary Lecture in January 1996, and an International Congress of Mathematicians invited talk in 1998.[1][7] In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[8]

Selected publications

  • Kuperberg, Krystyna (1994). "A smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture". Annals of Mathematics. (2). 140 (3): 723–732. doi:10.2307/2118623. MR 1307902.
  • Kuperberg, Greg; Kuperberg, Krystyna (1996). "Generalized counterexamples to the Seifert conjecture". Annals of Mathematics. (2). 143 (3): 547–576. arXiv:math/9802040. doi:10.2307/2118536. MR 1394969.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Krystyna Kuperberg", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College, retrieved 2014-06-24
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Krystyna Kuperberg", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Krystyna M. Kuperberg Archived 2014-02-05 at the Wayback Machine, Profiles of Women in Mathematics, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2014-06-24.
  4. ^ Featured photographer: Anna Kuperberg, Wedding Photojournalist Association, retrieved 2014-06-24.
  5. ^ Krystyna Kuperberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ A Dynamical System on R3 with Uniformly Bounded Trajectories and No Compact Trajectories, August 1989, retrieved 2015-11-11.
  7. ^ Kuperberg, Krystyna (1998). "Counterexamples to the Seifert conjecture". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 831–840.
  8. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
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