Rosa Orellana

Rosa C. Orellana is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College.[1][2]

Early life and education

Orellana's excitement for mathematics was recognized early, by one of her elementary school teachers.[3] She is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles,[1] and was the first in her family to earn a college degree. Her undergraduate education also included summer research with Kenneth Millett at the University of California, Santa Barbara on knot theory and its applications to biomolecules.[3]

She completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego.[4] Originally intending to continue her study of knot theory, she shifted to algebraic combinatorics after the knot theorist she planned to work with went on leave.[3] Her dissertation, The Hecke Algebra of Type B at Roots of Unity, Markov Traces and Subfactors, was supervised by Hans Wenzl.[4]

Career

After completing her doctorate, Orellana became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, supported by a University of California President's Posdoctoral Fellowship,[2][5] before joining Dartmouth as a Wilson Foundation Fellow in 2000.[2][6]

At Dartmouth, she won the John M. Manley Huntington Memorial Award for outstanding research by a newly tenured faculty member, helped found the Dartmouth chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics,[2][6] and founded a sequence of Sonia Kovalevsky Math days to encourage local school girls to continue in mathematics.[6]

References
  1. "Rosa C. Orellana", Faculty directory, Dartmouth College, retrieved 2019-08-18
  2. "Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College", 2013 Election Candidate Statements, Association for Women in Mathematics, 2013, retrieved 2019-08-18
  3. Slaughter, Jacob, "Running the Numbers: A Biographical Essay on Professor Rose Orellana", 2018 AWM Essay Contest Grand Prize Winner, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2019-08-18
  4. Rosa Orellana at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Rosa C. Orellana", Researcher profiles, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, retrieved 2019-08-18
  6. "Hispanic Heritage Calendar: Rosa Orellana", Lathisms: Latinxs and Hispanics in Mathematical Sciences, October 2, 2016, retrieved 2019-08-18
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