About Emily E. Witt
Emily E. Witt was an American mathematician.
Emily Elspeth Witt is an American mathematician, an associate professor and Keeler Intra-University Professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas. Her research involves commutative algebra, representation theory, and singularity theory.
Education and career Witt is a 2005 graduate of the University of Chicago, where she majored in mathematics with a specialization in computer science. She completed her Ph.D. in 2011 at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, Local cohomology and group actions, was supervised by Melvin Hochster.
Witt worked as a Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota from 2011 to 2014, and as a research assistant professor at the University of Utah from 2014 to 2015. In 20155, she obtained a tenure-track assistant professorship at the University of Kansas. She was promoted to associate professor in 2020, and named Keeler Intra-University Professor for 2021β2022.
Recognition Witt is the 2022β2023 winner of the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
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