Emma Previato

Emma Previato (November 29, 1952 – June 29, 2022) was an Italian–born American professor of mathematics at Boston University. Her research focused on algebraic geometry and partial differential equations.

Career Previato received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1983 under David Mumford. She was a faculty member at Boston University.

Previato founded Boston University's chapters of the Mathematical Association of America

Awards and honors In 2003, she received the Mathematical Association of America Northeastern Section's Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics for her work in and out of the classroom, especially her mentoring of students.

In 2012, Previato became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Personal life Previato was born in Badia Polesine in 1952. She earned undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Padua before beginning her PhD at Harvard.

Selected publications Previato, Emma. Hyperelliptic quasiperiodic and soliton solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation]. Duke Mathematical Journal 52 (1985), no. 2, 329–377. Adams, M. R.; Harnad, J.; Previato, E. Isospectral Hamiltonian flows in finite and infinite dimensions. I. Generalized Moser systems and moment maps into loop algebras. Communications in Mathematical Physics 117 (1988), no. 3, 451–500. Eilbeck, J. C.; Enolski, V. Z.; Matsutani, S.; Ônishi, Y.; Previato, E. Abelian functions for trigonal curves of genus three. International Mathematics Research Notices 2008, no. 1, Art. ID rnm 140, 38 pp.