Audrey Terras

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| birth_name = Audrey Bowdoin

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|9|10|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Washington, D.C.

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| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = University of California San Diego

| alma_mater = University of Maryland, College Park {{small|(BS)}}
Yale University {{small|(MA, PhD)}}

| doctoral_advisor = Tsuneo Tamagawa

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| doctoral_students = Dorothy Wallace

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| awards = Fellow of the AAAS
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Audrey Anne Terras (born September 10, 1942) is an American mathematician who works primarily in number theory. Her research has focused on quantum chaos and on various types of zeta functions.

Early life and education

Audrey Terras was born September 10, 1942, in Washington, D.C.

{{cite journal |date=September 2000 |title=Biographies of Candidates 2000 |journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society |volume=47 |issue=8 |pages=922–934 |url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200008/bios00.pdf |access-date=2009-05-24 }}

She received a BS degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) in 1964, and MA and PhD degrees from Yale University in 1966 and 1970 respectively.

{{cite web | title=2000 AWM-MAA Invited Address: Audrey Terras | url=https://awm-math.org/awards/falconer-lectures/ | publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics | access-date=2009-05-25}} She was married to fellow UMD alumnus Riho Terras.{{cite book |last1=Terras |first1=Audrey |title=Harmonic Analysis on Symmetric Spaces—Euclidean Space, the Sphere, and the Poincare Upper Half-Plane |date=2013 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-4614-7971-0 |page=67 |edition=Second}} She stated in a 2008 interview that she chose to study mathematics because "The U.S. government paid me! And not much! It was the time of Sputnik, so we needed to produce more mathematicians, and when I was deciding between Math and History, they weren’t paying me to do history, they were paying me to do math."{{cite web |title=Interview with Audrey Terras |url=http://math.ucsd.edu/programs/undergraduate/Math_Club_Newsletter.pdf |work=UCSD Math Club Newsletter |publisher=University of California, San Diego |pages=1, 3 |date=Fall 2008 |access-date=2009-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621160402/http://www.math.ucsd.edu/programs/undergraduate/Math_Club_Newsletter.pdf |archive-date=2010-06-21 |url-status=dead }}

Career

Terras joined the University of California, San Diego, as an assistant professor in 1972, and became a full professor there in 1983.{{cite web | title=Audrey Terras's Personal Website at UCSD | url=http://math.ucsd.edu/~aterras/ | publisher=University of California, San Diego | date=January 2019| access-date=2020-03-09}} She retired in 2010, and currently holds the title of Professor Emerita.{{cite web | title=Audrey Terras's Home Page at UCSD | url=https://math.ucsd.edu/people/profiles/audrey-terras/ | publisher=University of California, San Diego | date=2019-10-27| access-date=2020-03-09}}

As an undergraduate Terras was inspired by her teacher Sigekatu Kuroda to become a number theorist; she was especially interested in the use of analytic techniques to get algebraic results. Today her research interests are in number theory, harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces and finite groups, special functions, algebraic graph theory, zeta functions of graphs, arithmetical quantum chaos, and the Selberg trace formula.

Recognition

Terras was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1982. She was the Association for Women in Mathematics-

Mathematical Association of America AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer in 2000, speaking on "Finite Quantum Chaos,"

{{cite web | title=AWM Falconer Lectures | url=https://awm-math.org/awards/falconer-lectures/ | publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics | access-date=2009-05-26| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090617203332/http://www.awm-math.org/falconerlectures.html| archive-date= 17 June 2009 | url-status= live}}

and the AWM's Noether Lecturer in 2008, speaking on "Fun with Zeta Functions of Graphs".{{cite web |title=Emmy Noether Lectures |url=https://awm-math.org/awards/noether-lectures/ |website=Association for Women in Mathematics |access-date=26 January 2019}} In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-08-25.

She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.{{citation|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/|title=2019 Class of AWM Fellows|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|access-date=2018-10-07}}

Selected publications

{{cite book | last = Terras | first = Audrey | title = Harmonic Analysis on Symmetric Spaces and Applications |volume = 1| publisher = Springer-Verlag | location = Berlin | year = 1985 | isbn = 978-0-387-96159-0 }}{{cite journal|author=Garrett, Paul B.|title=Review: Harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces and applications, by Audrey Terras|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.)|year=1990|volume=22|issue=1|pages=219–230|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1990-22-01/S0273-0979-1990-15884-7/S0273-0979-1990-15884-7.pdf|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-1990-15884-7|doi-access=free}}
{{cite book | last = Terras | first = Audrey | title = Harmonic Analysis on Symmetric Spaces and Applications |volume = 2 | publisher = Springer-Verlag | location = Berlin | year = 1988 | isbn = 978-0-387-96663-2 }}
{{cite book | last = Terras | first = Audrey | title = Fourier Analysis on Finite Groups and Applications | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge | year = 1999 | isbn = 978-0-521-45718-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/fourieranalysiso0000terr }}
{{cite journal |last=Terras |first=Audrey|date=February 2002 |title=Finite Quantum Chaos |journal=American Mathematical Monthly |volume=109 |issue=2 |pages=121–139 |publisher=Mathematical Association of America |location=Washington, DC |issn=0002-9890 |doi= 10.2307/2695325 |jstor=2695325 }} Article based on her 2000 Falconer lecture.
{{cite web |first=Audrey |last=Terras|title=A Stroll Through the Garden of Graph Zeta Functions |url=http://math.ucsd.edu/%7Eaterras/newbook.pdf |publisher=University of California, San Diego |date= 2007-03-20 |access-date=2009-05-26 }} Draft of a book on zeta functions of graphs.