Education
Keyfitz did her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in 1970 from New York University, under the supervision of Peter Lax.
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Barbara Keyfitz
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Career
In her research, she studies nonlinear partial differential equations and associated conservation laws. Before taking her present position at Ohio State, she taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, Arizona State University, and the University of Houston. At Houston, she was the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Mathematics.
She was also the director of the Fields Institute from 2004 to 2008.
She was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2005 to 2006, and in 2011 she became president of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Keyfitz was born in Ottawa, and is the daughter of Canadian demographer Nathan Keyfitz.
Achievements
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Keyfitz is the 2005 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society, the 2011 Noether Lecturer of the Association for Women in Mathematics, the 2012 winner of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession, and the 2012 AWM-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. She is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Membership
American Mathematical Society.
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United States