Doug Lind
{{short description|American mathematician}}
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| name = Doug Lind
| image = Douglas Lind Oberwolfach 1978.jpg
| caption = Lind in Seattle in 1978
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| nationality = American
| alma_mater = Stanford University
| field = Mathematics
| doctoral_advisor = Donald Samuel Ornstein
| thesis_title = Locally Compact Measure Preserving Flows
| thesis_year = 1973
| workplaces = University of Washington
| website = {{URL|https://faculty.washington.edu/lind/}}
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Doug Lind is an American mathematician specializing in ergodic theory and dynamical systems. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington.{{cite web |last1=Lind |first1=Douglas |title=Douglas Lind's Website |url=https://faculty.washington.edu/lind/ |accessdate=8 October 2019}} Lind was named as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2019-10-08. He is a board member of Spectra, an association for LGBT mathematicians.{{cite web |title=Spectra |url=http://lgbtmath.org/People.html |accessdate=30 September 2019}}
Education
Lind received his PhD from Stanford University in 1973. His advisor was Donald Samuel Ornstein and the title of his dissertation was Locally Compact Measure Preserving Flows.{{cite web |title=Douglas Allen Lind |url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=7816 |website=Mathematics Genealogy Project |accessdate=8 October 2019}}
See also
- Daniel Rudolph - contemporary of Doug Lind
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