Gordana Matic
Gordana Matic is a Croatian-American mathematician[1] who works as a professor at the University of Georgia.[2] Her research concerns low-dimensional topology and contact geometry.
Matic earned her doctorate from the University of Utah in 1986, under the supervision of Ronald J. Stern,[3] and worked as a C.L.E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the University of Georgia faculty.[4][5]
Matic was the Spring 2012 speaker in the University of Texas Distinguished Women in Mathematics Lecture Series.[6] In 2014, she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to low-dimensional and contact topology."[7]
References
- ^ Croatian Mathematical Diaspora, Darko Zubrinic, March 2002, retrieved 2015-01-18.
- ^ Faculty directory, Univ. of Georgia Dept. of Mathematics, retrieved 2015-01-18.
- ^ Gordana Matic at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ University of Utah Mathematics Department Newsletter, 1986–1987, retrieved 2015-01-18.
- ^ Moore Instructors at MIT from 1949, Haynes Miller, retrieved 2015-01-18.
- ^ Distinguished Women in Mathematics Lecture Series, University of Texas, retrieved 2015-01-18.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-18.
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- Croatian mathematicians
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- Croatian expatriates in the United States
- Topologists