Current Distinguished Visiting Professor
Karen Uhlenbeck
Affiliation
Mathematics
Field of Study
Gauge Theory
Home Institution
The University of Texas at Austin
Karen Uhlenbeck works primarily on geometric partial differential equations. She has worked in the areas of the calculus of variations, minimal surfaces, harmonic maps, gauge theory, and integrable systems. She is currently interested in flat complex connections and moduli spaces of geometric structures on complex connections.
Dates at IAS
Distinguished Visiting Professor
School of Mathematics
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Visiting Professor
School of Mathematics
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Other
Visitor
School of Mathematics
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Visitor
School of Mathematics
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Visiting Professor
School of Mathematics
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Spring
Visiting Professor
School of Mathematics
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Member
School of Mathematics
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Fall
Member
School of Mathematics
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Degrees
Brandeis University
Ph.D.
1968
Honors
2019
Abel Prize, Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
