Susan Jane Colley

Susan Jane Colley (née Morris, born 1959)[1][2] is an American mathematician. She is Andrew and Pauline Delaney Professor of Mathematics at Oberlin College,[3] and editor-in-chief of the American Mathematical Monthly.[4] Her mathematical research specialty is enumerative geometry.[3]

Colley went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an undergraduate,[5] and earned her Ph.D. at MIT in 1983. Her dissertation, On the Enumerative Geometry of Stationary Multiple-points, was supervised by Steven Kleiman.[6] She became editor of the American Mathematical Monthly beginning in 2017.[4]

Colley is the author of the textbook Vector Calculus (Prentice Hall, 1997; 4th ed., Pearson, 2011).

References
  1. Alberich, R.; Miret, J. M.; Miro-Julia, J.; Rosselló, F.; Xambó, S. (2002), "The Kleiman graph" (PDF), Kleiman Fest, Osló
  2. Birth year from VIAF authority control record, accessed 2019-02-13.
  3. Nagy, Amanda (September 10, 2015), "Top of her game", Oberlin College News
  4. Past Editors of The American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2019-02-13
  5. "An Interview with Susan Jane Colley" (PDF), Girls' Angle Bulletin, vol. 9 no. 4, pp. 3–7, April–May 2016
  6. Susan Jane Colley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project


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