Chelsea Walton
African-American mathematician & academic
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Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Rice University |
Thesis | On Degenerations and Deformations of Sklyanin Algebras (2011) |
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Chelsea Walton is a mathematician whose research interests include noncommutative algebra , noncommutative algebraic geometry , symmetry in quantum mechanics , Hopf algebras , and quantum groups . She is an associate professor at Rice University and a Sloan Research Fellow . [1]
Education and career
Walton is African-American, [2] originally from Detroit, Michigan , [3] and was educated in the Detroit public schools . [4] As a child she made a letter frequency table from her children's dictionary, [1] and as a high school student, seeking a way to "do logic puzzles all day and get paid for this", [2] she was already planning a career as a mathematics professor. [3]
She graduated from Michigan State University in 2005, [5] and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2011. Her dissertation, On Degenerations and Deformations of Sklyanin Algebras , [6] was jointly supervised by Toby Stafford [ de ] and Karen E. Smith , [7] and based in part on her work as a visiting student at the University of Manchester , where Stafford had moved. [8]
Walton did postdoctoral research at the University of Washington and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute , and became a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2012 to 2015. [8] She came to Temple University as Selma Lee Bloch Brown Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 2015 [1] . She moved to the University of Illinois in 2018. [5] [4] She joined the faculty at Rice University in 2020. [9]
Recognition
Walton was named a Sloan Fellow in 2017, becoming the fourth African-American to win a Sloan Fellowship in mathematics. [1] Walton was also recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree. [2] In 2018 she won the André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson geometry , the first woman to be awarded this prize. [10] The award citation noted her research on Sklyanin algebras in Poisson geometry , on the actions of Hopf algebras , and on the universal enveloping algebra of the Witt algebra . [11]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Temple mathematician Chelsea Walton named a 2017 Sloan Research Fellow" , Temple Now , Temple University , March 7, 2017
- 1 2 3 "Chelsea Walton" , Mathematically Gifted and Black: Black History Month 2017 Honoree , retrieved 2018-10-18
- 1 2 Paoletta, Rae (March 8, 2017), "These Black Female Mathematicians Should Be Stars in the Blockbusters of Tomorrow" , Gizmodo
- 1 2 Readdy, Margaret A.; Taylor, Christine (March 2018), "Chelsea Walton" (PDF) , Women's History Month, Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 65 (3): 296–297
- 1 2 Bursztynsky, Jessica; Evensen, Dave (September 13, 2018), New faculty join the College of LAS , University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences , retrieved 2018-10-19
- ↑ Walton, C. M. (2011). On degenerations and deformations of Sklyanin algebras (Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan).
- ↑ Chelsea Walton at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- 1 2 Curriculum vitae (PDF) , retrieved 2020-07-01
- ↑ Chelsea Walton , retrieved 2020-07-06
- ↑ Chelsea Walton and Brent Prym win 2018 André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson Geometry , International Mathematical Union Committee for Women in Mathematics, August 20, 2018
- ↑ André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson geometry (PDF) , Fields Institute , 2018 , retrieved 2018-10-19
Further reading
- Diaz-Lopez, Alexander (February 2018), "Chelsea Walton Interview" (PDF) , Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 65 (2): 164–166, doi : 10.1090/noti1631