Maria-Carme Calderer

Maria-Carme Calderer
Citizenship United States
Alma mater Heriot-Watt University
Known for Applied mathematics
Spouse(s) Douglas Arnold
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Minnesota
Thesis Dynamical Behavior of Nonlinear Elastic and Viscoelastic Sheperical Shells (1980)
Doctoral advisor John MacLeod Ball
Doctoral students
  • Kalin Godev
  • Chong Luo
  • Bagisa Mukherjee
  • Jinhae Park
  • Quan Shen
  • Hang Zhang

Maria-Carme Calderer is a professor of mathematics at University of Minnesota. Her research concerns applied mathematics.

Career

Calderer received her Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University in 1980.[1] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications from 1984 to 1987, first as a postdoctoral researcher, and then as a visiting professor.[2] She worked at Penn State from 1989 until 2002, when she joined the faculty of University of Minnesota.

Awards and honors

In 2000, Calderer received the Teresa Cohen Service Award from Penn State University.[3]

In 2012, Calderer became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

Personal life

Calderer was raised in Barcelona, Spain.[5] She is married to Douglas Arnold, professor of mathematics at University of Minnesota.

Selected publications

  • Bauman, Patricia; Calderer, M. Carme; Liu, Chun; Phillips, Daniel The phase transition between chiral nematic and smectic A∗ liquid crystals. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 165 (2002), no. 2, 161–186.
  • Calderer, M. Carme; Liu, Chun Liquid crystal flow: dynamic and static configurations. SIAM J. Appl. Math. 60 (2000), no. 6, 1925–1949.

References

  1. Maria-Carme Calderer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "University of Minnesota - Newsletter of the School of Mathematics January 2002". Retrieved Feb 1, 2015.
  3. "Teresa Cohen Service Award". Penn State University. Retrieved Feb 1, 2015.
  4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  5. Jensen, Jill (March 6, 2012). "Data shows men dominate science and engineering faculty at the U". Minnesota Daily. University of Minnesota. Retrieved Feb 1, 2015.
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