Mary Silber
Mary Catherine Silber is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago who works in bifurcation theory and pattern formation.[1]
Mary Silber | |
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Awards | Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Sonoma State University, University of California, Berkeley |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Statistics |
Institutions | The University of Chicago |
Education and career
Silber earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Sonoma State University in 1981.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989, under the supervision of Edgar Knobloch. Her dissertation was Bifurcations with Symmetry and Spatial Pattern Selection.[3]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota, Georgia Institute of Technology, and California Institute of Technology, she joined the Northwestern faculty in 1993.[2] She moved to the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago in 2015 as a faculty member in the Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative.
Recognition
In 2012 she became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics "for contributions to the analysis of bifurcations in the presence of symmetry".[4]
References
- Faculty Directory: Mary Silber, The University of Chicago, retrieved 2016-01-21.
- Mary Silber CV (PDF), retrieved 2016-12-09
- Mary Silber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- SIAM Fellows: Class of 2012, retrieved 2015-09-09.