Karen Yeats

Karen Amanda Yeats (born 1980)[1] is a Canadian mathematician and mathematical physicist whose research connects combinatorics to quantum field theory. They[a] hold the Canada Research Chair in Combinatorics in Quantum Field Theory at the University of Waterloo.[3]

Karen Yeats
Born1980 (1980)
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Waterloo (BMath)
Boston University (PhD)
ThesisGrowth Estimates for Dyson-Schwinger Equations (2008)
Doctoral advisorDirk Kreimer
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics, Physics
Sub-disciplineCombinatorics; quantum field theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Waterloo

Biography

Yeats is from Halifax, Nova Scotia. As an undergraduate at the University of Waterloo, they won an honourable mention for the 2003 Morgan Prize for their research in number theory, the theory of Lie groups, and non-standard models of arithmetic. They graduated in 2003, and went to Boston University for graduate school,[4] where they completed their Ph.D. in 2008. Their dissertation, Growth Estimates for Dyson-Schwinger Equations, was supervised by Dirk Kreimer.[5] In 2016, Yeats was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship to visit Kreimer at the Humboldt University of Berlin.[6]

Yeats is the author of the books Rearranging Dyson–Schwinger Equations (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 2011)[7] and A Combinatorial Perspective on Quantum Field Theory (Springer, 2017).[8]

References

  1. ^ Yeats uses they/them pronouns.[2]
  1. ^ Birth year from catalogue data for Rearranging Dyson-Schwinger Equations
  2. ^ Karen Yeats. "Karen Yeats". math.uwaterloo.ca. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  3. ^ Karen A. Yeats, Canada Research Chairs, 29 November 2012, retrieved 2018-02-28
  4. ^ "2003 Morgan Prize" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 51 (4): 438–439, April 2004
  5. ^ Karen Yeats at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Karen Yeats receives a 2016 Humboldt Research Fellowship, University of Waterloo, September 10, 2016, retrieved 2018-03-02
  7. ^ Shojaei-Fard, Ali (2012), "Review of Rearranging Dyson-Schwinger Equations", Mathematical Reviews, MR 2791969
  8. ^ Kolev, Dimitar A., "Review of A Combinatorial Perspective on Quantum Field Theory", zbMATH, Zbl 1360.81007