Elizabeth S. Allman

{{short description|American mathematician|bot=PearBOT 5}}

Elizabeth Spencer Allman (born 1965)Birth year from [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96019330.html Library of Congress catalog entry], retrieved 2018-12-01. is an American mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks; her research interests range from abstract algebra and algebraic statistics to biomathematics and phylogeny.{{citation|url=http://cnsm.uaf.edu/directory/name/elizabeth-allman/|title=Elizabeth S. Allman|work=Directory|publisher=University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Natural Science and Mathematics|accessdate=2018-12-18}}

Education

Allman earned her Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Murray M. Schacher. Her dissertation, in abstract algebra, was Polynomials Without Roots in Division Algebras.{{mathgenealogy|name=Elizabeth Spencer Allman|id=36667}}.

Contributions

With her Fairbanks colleague John A. Rhodes, Allman is the author of a book on mathematical biology and mathematical modeling, Mathematical Models in Biology: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2004).Reviews of Mathematical Models in Biology:

  • {{citation|title=none|journal=Mathematical Medicine and Biology|year=2005|doi=10.1093/imammb/dqi008|first=N. F.|last=Britton|volume=22|issue=3|pages=289–290}}
  • {{citation|title=none|journal=Mathematics and Computer Education|volume=39|issue=1|year=2005|last=Rauff|first=James V.|pages=78–79}}
  • {{citation|title=none|first=Nick|last=Lord|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|volume=89|issue=514|year=2005|pages=173–175|jstor=3620700|doi=10.1017/S002555720017740X}}
  • {{citation|title=none|first=Mei|last=Zhu|journal=SIAM Review|volume=46|issue=3|year=2004|pages=593–595|jstor=20453561}}.

Recognition

In 2012, Allman became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society]

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