Svetlana Katok

Svetlana Katok (born May 1, 1947) is a Russian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

Education and career Katok grew up in Moscow, and earned a master's degree from Moscow State University in 1969; however, due to the antisemitic and anti-intelligentsia policies of the time, she was denied admission to the doctoral program there and instead worked for several years in the area of early and secondary mathematical education. She joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty in 1990.

Katok was an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large.

Books Katok is the author of: Fuchsian Groups, Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, University of Chicago Press, 1992. Russian edition, Faktorial Press, Moscow, 2002. p-adic Analysis Compared with Real, Student Mathematical Library, vol. 37, American Math. Soc., 2007. Russian edition, MCCME Press, Moscow, 2004. Additionally, she coedited the book MASS Selecta: Teaching and learning advanced undergraduate mathematics (American Math. Soc., 2003).

Awards and honors Katok was the 2004 Emmy Noether Lecturer of the Association for Women in Mathematics.