Svetlana Katok is a Jewish Russian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.
Background
Katok grew up in Moscow, and earned a masters degree from Moscow State University in 1969. However, due to the anti-Semitic and anti-intelligentsia policies of the time, she was denied admission to the doctoral program there and instead worked for several years in the area of early and secondary mathematical education.
Career
She emigrated to the United States of America in 1978, and earned her doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1983 under the supervision of Don Zagier. She joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty in 1990. Katok founded the Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical Society in 1995.
lieutenant was renamed in 2007 to the Electronic Research Announcements in Mathematical Sciences, and she remains its managing editors
Katok was the 2004 Emmy Noether Lecturer of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Membership
American Mathematical Society.