Irina Mitrea

Irina Mitrea
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest,
University of Minnesota
Awards
Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize (2008–2009)
  • von Neumann Fellowship (2014–2015)
  • AMS Fellow (2015)
  • AWM Fellow (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Virginia,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Temple University
Doctoral advisorCarlos Kenig,
Mikhail Safonov

Irina Mitrea is a Romanian-American mathematician who works as professor and department chair at the Department of Mathematics of Temple University.[1] She is known for her contributions to harmonic analysis, particularly on the interface of this field with partial differential equations, geometric measure theory, scattering theory, complex analysis and validated numerics. She is also known for her efforts to promote mathematics among young women.[2][3][4][5]

Education and career

Mitrea earned a master's degree from the University of Bucharest in 1993,[6] and completed her doctorate in 2000 at the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Carlos Kenig and Mikhail Safonov. Her dissertation was Spectral Properties of Elliptic Layer Potentials on Non-Smooth Domains.[7] Her publications include over fifty research articles and three books published by Springer‐Verlag, Birkhäuser, and De Gruyter.[8] After temporary positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and Cornell University, she joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 2004, and earned tenure there in 2007.[6] She also taught at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute before moving to Temple.[9] She is the founder of the Girls and Mathematics Program at Temple University, a week-long summer camp in mathematics for middle-school girls.[2] She is a member of the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences, an organization providing mentorship to "build a national community of students, faculty, and staff who will work together to transform our departments, colleges, and universities into institutions where all students are welcome."[8]

Recognition

In 2008, Mitrea won the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[6] In 2014, she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to partial differential equations and related fields as well as outreach to women and under-represented minorities at all educational levels."[10] Also in 2014, Mitrea was awarded a Von Neumann Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[11] In 2015 she received the AWM Service Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics.[5] She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[12]

References

  1. ^ "People - Department of Mathematics at Temple University". Temple Mathematics. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b Sasko, Claire (August 26, 2014), "For summer math camp, no boys allowed: Mathematics professor Irina Mitrea runs a summer-camp for girls only", The Temple News.
  3. ^ "WPI to Host Mathematics Day for Middle and High School Girls". WPI. 20 November 2009. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  4. ^ "Girls and Mathematics Summer Day Program | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications". Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  5. ^ a b "AWM Service Award 2015". AWM Service Awards 2015 - Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  6. ^ a b c "Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize 2008–2009". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 31 January 2021. Also printed in MAA Focus 28(5), May/June 2008, Mathematical Association of America, p. 5.
  7. ^ Irina Mitrea at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. ^ a b "Irina Mitrea | Math Alliance: The National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences". Archived from the original on 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  9. ^ Patel, Prachi (November 30, 2009), "Math Quiz: Why Do Men Predominate? It's culture, not biology", IEEE Spectrum, doi:10.1109/MSPEC.2009.5340245, S2CID 27126159, Irina Mitrea, a math professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts, who finished high school in Romania, says she never felt discouraged there: 'In fact, being good at math made you popular.'
  10. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-18.
  11. ^ "Temple Mathematics News 2014". Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  12. ^ 2019 Class of AWM Fellows, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2019-01-26