Kathryn Hess

Kathryn Hess (born 1967)[1] is a professor of mathematics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and is known for her work on homotopy theory, category theory, and algebraic topology, both pure and applied. In particular, she applies the methods of algebraic topology to better understanding neurology[2], cancer biology, and materials science. She is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Katheryn Hess Bellwald
Kathryn Hess Bellwald in 2019
Born (1967-09-21) September 21, 1967
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, US
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsFellow of the American Mathematical Society (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Doctoral advisorDavid Jay Anick

Life

Kathryn Hess was born 21 September 1967 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She began to accelerate in mathematics in 1979, thanks to the Mathematical Talent Development Project (MTDP) set up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, by her parents, through the Association for High Potential Children, which they also founded. Both programs are defunct at this point. Hess earned a BSc with honors in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985.[2] She received her doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 under the direction of David J. Anick. Her dissertation was entitled A Proof of Ganea's Conjecture for Rational Spaces.[H91][3]

Work

Hess has worked and written extensively on topics in algebraic topology including homotopy theory, model categories[H02] and algebraic K-theory.[HS] She has also used the methods of algebraic topology and category theory to investigate homotopical generalizations of descent theory[H10] and Hopf–Galois extensions.[H09] In particular, she has studied generalizations of these structures for ring spectra and differential graded algebras.

She has more recently used algebraic topology to understand structures in neurology[KDS][DHL] and materials science.[LBD]

Awards and honors

Hess received the Polysphere d'Or Teaching Award for her teaching at EPFL in 2013. In 2017, she was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society for "contributions to homotopy theory, applications of topology to the analysis of biological data, and service to the mathematical community".[4] In 2017, she received an award as a distinguished speaker of the European Mathematical Society.

Selected publications
H91.Hess, Kathryn P. (1991). "A proof of Ganea's conjecture for rational spaces". Topology. 30 (2): 205–214. doi:10.1016/0040-9383(91)90006-p. MR 1098914.
H02.Hess, Kathryn (2002). "Model categories in algebraic topology". Applied Categorical Structures. 10 (3): 195–220. doi:10.1023/A:1015218106586. MR 1916154.
H09.Hess, Kathryn (2009). "Homotopic Hopf–Galois extensions: Foundations and examples". New topological contexts for Galois theory and algebraic geometry (BIRS 2008). Geom. Topol. Monogr. 16. doi:10.2140/gtm.2009.16.79. MR 2544387.
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HS.Hess, Kathryn; Shipley, Brooke (2016). "Waldhausen K-theory of spaces via comodules". Advances in Mathematics. 290: 1079–1137. doi:10.1016/j.aim.2015.12.019. MR 3451948.
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References
  1. Birth year from ISNI authority control file, retrieved 2018-11-28.
  2. "Prof. Kathryn Hess Bellwald | UPHESS". hessbellwald-lab.epfl.ch. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  3. Kathryn Hess at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "2017 Class of the Fellows of the AMS". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
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