Maria-Carme Calderer
{{short description|American mathematician}}
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| alma_mater = Heriot-Watt University
| thesis_title = Dynamical Behavior of Nonlinear Elastic and Viscoelastic Spherical Shells
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| thesis_year = 1980
| doctoral_advisor = John MacLeod Ball
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Maria-Carme T. Calderer (Berga, 1951){{Cite web |title=Carme Calderer |url=https://wimmn.math.umn.edu/womens-history-month-2020/carme-calderer |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=wimmn.math.umn.edu |language=en-US}} is a professor of mathematics at University of Minnesota. Her research concerns applied mathematics.
Career
Calderer received her Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University in 1980.{{MathGenealogy|id=40811|title=Maria-Carme Calderer}} She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications from 1984 to 1987, first as a postdoctoral researcher, and then as a visiting professor.{{cite web|url=http://www.math.umn.edu/newsletter/2002/|title=University of Minnesota - Newsletter of the School of Mathematics January 2002|accessdate=Feb 1, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123205005/http://www.math.umn.edu/newsletter/2002/|archive-date=January 23, 2015|url-status=dead}} She worked at Penn State from 1989 until 2001, when she joined the faculty of University of Minnesota.
Awards and honors
In 2000 Calderer received the Teresa Cohen Service Award from Penn State University.{{cite web|url=https://www.math.psu.edu/about/giving/cohen-service|title=Teresa Cohen Service Award|location=Penn State University|accessdate=Feb 1, 2015}}
In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society]
In 2022 she will become a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics, "For being a role model nationally and internationally due to her outstanding research contributions in the mathematics of materials; for her long record of mentoring, advising, and supervising women in applied mathematics; and for her leadership role in the mathematics community by organizing conferences, workshops, and thematic years."{{Cite web|title=2022 Class of AWM Fellows|url=https://awm-math.org/awards-awm-fellows-2022-awm-fellows/}}
Personal life
Calderer was raised in Berga, Spain.{{cite news |last=Jensen |first=Jill |date=March 6, 2012 |title=Data shows men dominate science and engineering faculty at the U |url=http://www.mndaily.com/2012/03/06/data-shows-men-dominate-science-and-engineering-faculty-u |newspaper=Minnesota Daily |location=University of Minnesota |access-date=Feb 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518234651/http://www.mndaily.com/2012/03/06/data-shows-men-dominate-science-and-engineering-faculty-u |archive-date=May 18, 2012 |url-status=dead }} She is married to Douglas Arnold, one of her fellow professors of mathematics at University of Minnesota.
Selected publications
- Bauman, Patricia; Calderer, M. Carme; Liu, Chun; Phillips, Daniel The phase transition between chiral nematic and smectic A∗ liquid crystals. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 165 (2002), no. 2, 161–186.
- Calderer, M. Carme; Liu, Chun Liquid crystal flow: dynamic and static configurations. SIAM J. Appl. Math. 60 (2000), no. 6, 1925–1949.
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