Rachel Justine Pries

Rachel Justine Pries
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania, 2000
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Colorado State University
Doctoral advisor David Harbater

Rachel Justine Pries is an American mathematician whose current research interests concern arithmetic geometry and Galois theory. Her earlier work involved semi-stable reduction, deformation theory, and formal patching of curves. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Education

Pries received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2000 under the supervision of David Harbater.[1] Her dissertation title was "Formal Patching and Deformation of Wildly Ramified Covers of Curves."[1] She received a B.S. degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1994. Pries is from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Career and research

After her doctoral studies, Pries was appointed a National Science Foundation VIGRE post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University for 2000 to 2003. After her post-doc at Columbia, Rachel joined the faculty at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, where she supervised 4 Ph.D. students[1] and is currently a full professor.

In one of her most cited works, Families of wildly ramified covers of curves,[2] Pries studied smooth Galois covers of curves, ramified over only one point. In a second highly cited paper, Hyperelliptic curves with prescribed p-torsion,[3] Pries and co-author Darren Glass, proved several results regarding the existence of Jacobian varieties having interesting p-torsion as measured in terms of invariants such as the p-rank and the a-number.

Pries serves on the Steering Committee of Women in Number Theory (WIN),[4] a research collaboration community for women mathematicians interested in number theory. She was an editor of Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop (Association for Women in Mathematics Series), which was published by Springer Verlag in 2016.[5]

Honors

Pries was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Her citation read "for contributions to arithmetic geometry, and for service to the mathematical community."[6] Pries was selected as the inaugural lecturer in the Association for Women in Mathematics Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, in 2013.[7] In 2004, Pries was selected as Outstanding Professor in Graduate Instruction by the mathematics graduate students of Colorado State University [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rachel Justine Pries at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Pries, Rachel J. (2002). "Families of wildly ramified covers of curves" (PDF). Amer. J. Math. 124 (4): 737–768. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Glass, Darren; Pries, Rachel (2005). "Hyperelliptic curves with prescribed p-torsion" (PDF). Manuscripta Math. 117 (3): 299–317. arXiv:math/0401008. Bibcode:2004math......1008G. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Women in Number Theory Steering Committee". Women in Number Theory. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Eischen, Ellen; Long, Ling; Pries, Rachel (2016). Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop (Association for Women in Mathematics Series). Springer Verlag. ISBN 3319309749.
  6. ↑ "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". ams.org. American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Distinguished Speaker Series". Association for Women in Mathematics, University of Oregon. University of Oregon. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Awards of the Department". Colorado State University Mathematics Department. Colorado State University. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
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