Adriana Salerno

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Salerno and the second or maternal family name is Domínguez.

Adriana Julia Salerno Domínguez (born 1979) is a Venezuelan-American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Bates College, and a program director at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests include arithmetic geometry and arithmetic dynamics in number theory.[1] She is also a mathematics blogger, the co-founder of the American Mathematical Society blogs "Ph.D. plus epsilon" and "inclusion/exclusion".[2]

Education and career

Salerno was born in Caracas in 1979,[3] and earned a licenciatura in mathematics from Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) in 2001, advised by Pedro Berrizbeitia.[4] She completed a Ph.D. in mathematics in 2009 at the University of Texas at Austin, with the dissertation Hypergeometric Functions in Arithmetic Geometry supervised by Fernando Rodríguez-Villegas.[4][5]

She joined Bates College as an assistant professor in 2009.[4] In 2016, she visited the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., as Dolciani Visiting Mathematician.[1][6] After serving as department chair, she took a leave from Bates College beginning in 2021 to become a program officer for the National Science Foundation,[7] where she is a program director for algebra and number theory.[8] In 2021, she was also elected vice president of the MAA.[9]

Recognition

Salerno is a 2023 recipient of one of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Adriana J. Salerno, Professor of Mathematics", Mathematics faculty profiles, Bates College, retrieved 2024-03-27
  2. ^ a b Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award: Adriana Salerno (PDF), Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2024-03-27; "Mathematical Association of America recognizes Bates professor", Sun Journal, December 7, 2023; Bates professor wins national mathematics teaching award, Bates College, November 15, 2023, retrieved 2024-03-27
  3. ^ Salerno, Adriana Julia, Hypergeometric Functions in Arithmetic Geometry (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis), University of Texas at Austin; see also vita, p. 102
  4. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), Bates College, March 2013, retrieved 2024-03-27
  5. ^ Adriana Salerno at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ MAA Hosts 2016 Visiting Mathematician Adriana Salerno, Mathematical Association of America, September 12, 2016, retrieved 2024-03-27
  7. ^ "Division Director Update", Division of Mathematical Sciences Newsletter, National Science Foundation, September 2021, retrieved 2024-03-27
  8. ^ "Adriana Salerno", Staff directory, National Science Foundation, retrieved 2024-03-27
  9. ^ "Soto wins MAA president-elect position", NebraskaMATH, University of Nebraska, November 8, 2021, retrieved 2024-03-27