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.
mathematician university professor
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.
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.
American Mathematical Society.