Julia F. Knight
{{Short description|American mathematician}}
Julia Frandsen Knight is an American mathematician, specializing in model theory and computability theory.[https://math.nd.edu/people/faculty/julia-knight/ Faculty profile], Notre Dame, retrieved 2013-10-16. She is the Charles L. Huisking Professor of Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame and director of the graduate program in mathematics there.[http://professorships.nd.edu/professorships/the-charles-l-huisking-professor-of-mathematics-1/ Julia Knight – Named professorships and directorships at Notre Dame] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017121320/http://professorships.nd.edu/professorships/the-charles-l-huisking-professor-of-mathematics-1/ |date=2013-10-17 }}, retrieved 2013-10-16.
Education
Knight did her undergraduate studies at Utah State University, graduating in 1964, and earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972 under the supervision of Robert Lawson Vaught.{{mathgenealogy|id=11628}}
Honors and awards
In 2012, she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of AMS Fellows], retrieved 2013-10-16. and she was elected to be the 30th president of the Association for Symbolic Logic.[http://aslonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Jan2019newsletter.pdf ASL Newsletter, January 2019]. She was named MSRI Simons Professor for Fall 2020.{{Cite web|last=MSRI|title=Mathematical Sciences Research Institute|url=http://www.msri.org/|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.msri.org}}
In 2014, Knight held the Gödel Lecture, titled Computable structure theory and formulas of special forms.
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