Tara E. Brendle

Tara Elise Brendle is an American mathematician who works in geometric group theory, which involves the intersection of algebra and low-dimensional topology. In particular, she studies mapping class group of surfaces, including braid groups, and their relationship to automorphism groups of free groups and arithmetic groups. She is a professor of mathematics and head of mathematics at the University of Glasgow.[1]

Education and career

Brendle received her B.S. in mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, from Haverford College in 1995.[2] At Haverford, she won All Middle-Atlantic Conference honors in 1992 for her volleyball playing,[3] and won honorable mention in the 1995 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman of the Association for Women in Mathematics for her undergraduate research in knot theory.[4] She received her M.A. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1996 and went on to complete her Ph.D. at Columbia under the supervision of Joan Birman in 2002.[5]. After receiving her Ph.D. from Columbia, Brendle was a National Science Foundation VIGRE Assistant Professor at Cornell University and an assistant professor at Louisiana State University. Then she moved to the University of Glasgow in 2008 where she is located today.[6]

Recognition

Brendle became a member of the Young Academy of Scotland in 2014.[7] She was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 class, "for contributions to topology and geometry, for expository lectures, and for service to the profession aimed at the full participation of women in mathematics."[8]

References
  1. "School of Mathematics & Statistics:Professor Tara Brendle". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), Cornell University Mathematics, 2004, retrieved 2019-11-03
  3. Volleyball All-Time Honors, Haverford Athletics, retrieved 2019-11-03
  4. Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman 1995, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2019-11-03
  5. Tara E. Brendle at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. "Tara E. Brendle". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  7. Webb, Sam (30 June 2014), Scotland’s Young Academy welcomes 43 new members, Young Academy of Scotland, retrieved 2019-11-03
  8. 2020 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 3 November 2019
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