Krystyna Kuperberg
| Krystyna M. Kuperberg | |
|---|---|
 Krystyna Kuperberg in 1990 | |
| Born |
July 17, 1944 Tarnów, Poland |
| Nationality | Polish, American |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Auburn University |
| Alma mater |
University of Warsaw (M.S.) Rice University (Ph.D.) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karol Borsuk and William Jaco |
| Known for | topology, dynamical systems |
Krystyna M. Kuperberg (born Krystyna M. Trybulec; 17 July 1944) is a Polish-American mathematician who currently works as a professor of mathematics at Auburn University and is the former Alumni Professor of Mathematics there.[1][2][3]
Her parents, Jan W. and Barbara H. Trybulec, were pharmacists and owned a pharmacy in Tarnów. Her older brother is Andrzej Trybulec. Her husband Włodzimierz Kuperberg and her son Greg Kuperberg are also mathematicians,[2][3] while her daughter Anna Kuperberg is a photographer.[3][4]
After attending high school in Gdańsk, she entered the University of Warsaw in 1962, where she studied mathematics. Her first mathematics course was taught by Andrzej Mostowski; later she attended topology lectures of Karol Borsuk and became fascinated by topology.[2][3]
After obtaining her undergraduate degree, Kuperberg began graduate studies at Warsaw under Borsuk, but stopped after earning a master's degree.[2][3] She left Poland in 1969 with her family to live in Sweden, then moved to the United States in 1972.[1][2][3] She finished her Ph.D. in 1974, from Rice University, under the supervision of William Jaco.[2][5][3] In the same year, both she and her husband were appointed to the faculty of Auburn University.[2][3]
In 1987 she solved a problem of Knaster concerning bi-homogeneity of continua.[2][3] In the 1980s she became interested in fixed points and topological aspects of dynamical systems. In 1989 Kuperberg and Coke Reed solved a problem posed by Stan Ulam in the Scottish Book.[6] The solution to that problem led to her well known 1993 work in which she constructed a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture.[1][2][3] She has since continued to work in dynamical systems.[3]
In 1995 Kuperberg received the Alfred Jurzykowski Award from the Kościuszko Foundation.[2][3] Her major lectures include an AMS Plenary Lecture in March 1995, an MAA Plenary Lecture in January 1996, and an ICM invited talk in 1998.[1] In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[7]
Selected publications
- K. Kuperberg, A smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture, Ann. of Math. (2) 140 (1994), no. 3, 723–732.
- G. Kuperberg and K. Kuperberg, Generalized counterexamples to the Seifert conjecture, Ann. of Math. (2) 143 (1996), no. 3, 547–576.
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Krystyna Kuperberg", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College, retrieved 2014-06-24
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Krystyna Kuperberg", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Profiles of Women in Mathematics, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ↑ Featured photographer: Anna Kuperberg, Wedding Photojournalist Association, retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ↑ Krystyna Kuperberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ A Dynamical System on R3 with Uniformly Bounded Trajectories and No Compact Trajectories, August 1989, retrieved 2015-11-11.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.