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
  • Mathematics
7/2019–current
Visiting Professor
  • Mathematics
5/2019–7/2019 Other
Visitor
  • Mathematics
12/2018–4/2019
Visitor
  • Mathematics
9/2014–7/2018
Visiting Professor
  • Mathematics
1/2012–6/2012 Spring
Visiting Professor
  • Mathematics
9/1997–5/1998
Member
  • Mathematics
9/1995–12/1995 Fall
Member
  • Mathematics
10/1979–5/1980
Degrees
Brandeis University Ph.D., 1968
Honors
Abel Prize, Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters 2019
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