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Katrin Wehrheim

Katrin Wehrheim

German-American mathematician

Katrin Wehrheim (born 1974) is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Wehrheim's research centers around symplectic topology and gauge theory, and they are known for work on pseudoholomorphic quilts. With Dusa McDuff, they have challenged the foundational rigor of a classic proof in symplectic geometry.[1]

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Education and career

After attending school in Hamburg[2] and studying at the University of Hamburg until 1995 and Imperial College until 1996, Wehrheim went to ETH Zürich for graduate studies. After almost dropping out to become an Olympic rower, Wehrheim completed her PhD in 2002, under the joint supervision of Dusa McDuff and Dietmar Salamon.[3]

Wehrheim was an instructor at Princeton University and member of the Institute for Advanced Study[4] before taking a tenure track position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005.[5] While they were at MIT, Wehrheim—who is openly gay—co-headed the 2008 Celebration of Women in Mathematics conference.[5][6] Since 2013, Wehrheim has been teaching mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.[7]

Awards and honors

Wehrheim's PhD thesis in mathematics Anti-Self-Dual Instantons with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions won the 2002 ETH medal.[3] In 2010, Wehrheim received the Presidential Career Award PECASE from Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House.[8] In 2012, Wehrheim became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[9]

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    Hartnett, Kevin (February 9, 2017), "A Fight to Fix Geometry's Foundations: When two mathematicians raised pointed questions about a classic proof that no one really understood, they ignited a years-long debate about how much could be trusted in a new kind of geometry", Quanta.
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    "Katrin Wehrheim", Scholars, Institute for Advanced Study, 9 December 2019, retrieved 2024-04-01; note 2004 start date as a member
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    Murray, Margaret A.M. (January 2009). "A Celebration of Women in Mathematics at MIT" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 56 (1). American Mathematical Society: 42, 44, 45.
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    "Katrin Wehrheim – Women In Math". math.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
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    "Katrin Wehrheim | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley". math.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
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    "President Names Nation's Top Early Career Scientists and Engineers" (Press release). National Science Foundation. November 9, 2010. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
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    List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-09-01.
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