Autumn Kent
{{short description|American mathematician}}
{{infobox scientist
| name = Autumn Kent
| image =
| nationality = American
| workplaces = University of Wisconsin–Madison
| alma_mater = B.A., University of North Carolina at Asheville, 1999
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2006
| thesis_title = Geometry and algebra of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
| thesis_url = https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/2732
| thesis_year = 2006
| doctoral_advisor = Cameron Gordon
| awards = {{ublist | 2019 Simons Fellow
| Vilas Associate (2018–2019)
| von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (2015–2016)
| National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2014)
| Frank Gerth Dissertation Award (1999)
}}
}}
Autumn Kent is an American mathematician specializing in topology and geometry. She is a professor of mathematics and Vilas Associate at the University of Wisconsin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.math.wisc.edu/node/115|title=Staff Specializations {{!}} Department of Mathematics|website=www.math.wisc.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-05-01|archive-date=2021-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303221056/https://www.math.wisc.edu/node/115|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=https://www.math.wisc.edu/node/702 |title=Autumn Kent named as a Vilas Associate |access-date=2018-08-02 |website=www.math.wisc.edu |archive-date=2019-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607065949/https://www.math.wisc.edu/node/702 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2018/06/uw-madison-students-faculty-break-the-silence-about-campus-mental-health |title=UW-Madison students, faculty break the silence about campus mental health |last=Wallner |first=Grace |date=2018-06-12 |access-date=2018-08-14 |website=The Daily Cardinal}} She is a transgender woman and a promoter of trans rights.{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/q-a-with-autumn-kent/|title=Being a Trans Mathematician: A Q&A with Autumn Kent|last=Lamb|first=Evelyn|work=Scientific American Blog Network|access-date=2018-05-01|language=en}}{{cite web|url=https://harvardgiim.org/wims/ |title=WIMS – Gender Inclusivity in Mathematics |website=Harvard Gender Inclusivity in Mathematics |access-date=2018-08-02|date=2016-08-29 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.rewire.org/our-future/queer-scientists-stem-inclusivity/ |title=500 Queer Scientists Speak Up About STEM Inclusivity |website=rewire.org |date=2018-06-28 |last=Crowell |first=Rachel |access-date=2018-08-02}}
Education
Kent received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1999. Originally, she had planned to become a high-school English teacher, but she switched to mathematics, majoring in it and in literature.{{cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-016.ps.html |title=New Physical Sciences Faculty 2006 |website=Brown University |access-date=2018-08-14 |date=2006-09-05}} She earned her Ph.D. under the advising of Cameron McAllan Gordon at the University of Texas at Austin in 2006; her dissertation was entitled Geometry and Algebra of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds.{{mathgenealogy|id=116135}} After a four-year position as the Tamarkin Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, she joined the faculty of University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2010. She became associate professor in 2016, and a full professor in 2020.
Career
Kent has published over 20 papers in various journals, mostly regarding low dimensional topology and knot theory. Many of these were published under her former name, or deadname, before she came out as transgender.{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.wisc.edu/~kent/cv.pdf|title=CV|last=Kent|first=Autumn|website=www.math.wisc.edu}}
Kent served on the Policy and Advocacy Committee for the Association for Women in Mathematics from February 2019 through January 2022.{{cite web |title=Policy & Advocacy Committee |url=https://awm-math.org/about/committees/committee-rosters/ |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=Association for Women in Mathematics}} In addition, she served on the Association for Women in Mathematics Panel Discussion Promoting Inclusion in STEM at the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meeting.{{cite web|url=https://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2019/2217_otherorg |title= Activities of Other Organizations |website=Joint Mathematics Meetings |access-date=2019-03-30}}{{cite web|url=https://awm-math.org/meetings/awm-jmm/awm-at-jmm-2019/ |title= AWM at JMM 2019 |website=Association for Women in Mathematics |access-date=2019-03-30}} With Harrison Bray, she organized the LG&TBQ+ conference at the University of Michigan to foster collaboration between LGBTQ+ mathematicians working in geometry, topology, and dynamical systems with funding from Kent's NSF Career Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.math.wisc.edu/~kent/LG&TBQ.about.html |title= LG&TBQ |access-date=2019-03-30}} She gave the Spectra Lavender Lecture at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meeting.{{Cite web |last=Meetings (JMM) |first=Joint Mathematics |title=Joint Mathematics Meetings |url=https://www.jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2022/2268_invspeakers#driessche |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=Joint Mathematics Meetings |language=en}}
Recognition
In 1999, Kent won the Frank Gerth Dissertation Award. In 2014, she was awarded an NSF Career Award to study moduli of Riemann surfaces.{{cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1350075 |title=CAREER: Moduli of curves via topology, geometry, and arithmetic |website=National Science Foundation |access-date=2019-03-30}} In 2015 and 2016, she was a von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.{{cite web |title=Past von Neumann Fellow: Autumn Kent |url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/autumn-kent |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |website=Institute for Advanced Study|date=9 December 2019 }} She was named as a Vilas Associate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for 2018 and 2019.{{cite web|url=https://research.wisc.edu/professorships-and-faculty-fellowships/vilas-associates/past-winners-vilas-associates/ |title=Past Winners Vilas Associates |website=University of Wisconsin |access-date=2019-03-30}} In 2019, she received a Simons Fellowship.{{cite web|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2019/03/15/2019-simons-fellows-in-mathematics-and-theoretical-physics-announced/ |title=2019 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Announced |website=Simons Foundation |access-date=2019-03-30|date=2019-03-15 }}{{cite web|url=https://badgerherald.com/news/2019/03/26/three-uw-professors-receive-simons-fellowships-in-mathematics/ |title=Three UW professors receive Simons Fellowships in mathematics |website=The Badger Herald |date=26 March 2019 |access-date=2019-03-30}}{{cite web|url=https://news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-mathematicians-named-simons-fellows/ |title=UW–Madison mathematicians named Simons Fellows | website=University of Wisconsin–Madison |access-date=2019-03-30}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=4977 |title=2019 Simons Fellows Announced |website=American Mathematical Society |access-date=2019-03-30}}
She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2024 class of fellows.{{cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/fellows_by_year.cgi?year=2024|title=2024 Class of Fellows of the AMS|publisher=American Mathematical Society|access-date=2023-11-09}}
References
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External links
- {{Google Scholar id|LliwaocAAAAJ}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Kent|first=Autumn|date=June 2017|title=Women's History Month: Don't Put a Man on the Cover|url=https://www.ams.org/publications/journals/notices/201706/rnoti-p540.pdf|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=64|pages=540}}
- {{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3O3w6dySZg |title=Asteroids, Donuts, and Topology – 2 Minute Math with Autumn Kent |website=Fields Institute on YouTube |date=2018-09-18 |access-date=2018-12-28}}
- {{Cite web|url=https://blogs.ams.org/jmm2019/2019/01/19/a-conversation-with-autumn-kent/|title=A conversation with Autumn Kent|website=YouTube|publisher=Joint Mathematics Meetings|date=January 2019}}
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Category:21st-century American women mathematicians
Category:American LGBTQ scientists
Category:American transgender women
Category:Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
Category:Transgender rights activists
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Category:University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni
Category:University of North Carolina at Asheville alumni
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Transgender scientists
Category:21st-century American LGBTQ people
Category:Transgender history in the United States