Rachel Justine Pries

Pries was a student at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.{{citation|title=Girls' Angle Bulletin, Volume 11, Number 6|publisher=Girls' Angle Bulletin|date= August 31, 2018|access-date=2020-06-02|url=https://girlsangle.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/girls-angle-bulletin-volume-11-number-6/}} She received a B.S. degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1994,{{citation|url=https://catalog.colostate.edu/general-catalog/faculty/#p|title=Faculty|work=General Catalog 2019–2020|publisher=Colorado State University|access-date=2020-06-02}} and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2000 under the supervision of David Harbater.{{MathGenealogy|id=48253|title=Rachel Justine Pries}}

After her doctoral studies, Pries was appointed a National Science Foundation VIGRE post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University for 2000 to 2003. After her post-doc at Columbia, Rachel joined the faculty at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, where she is currently a full professor.{{cite web|url=https://mathematics.colostate.edu/person/?id=1F6F13244A80B33ED017FF7339065CD1&sq=t|publisher=Colorado State University|title=Rachel Pries, Professor|work=Department of Mathematics Faculty and Staff|access-date=19 March 2020}}

In one of her most cited works, Families of wildly ramified covers of curves,{{cite journal|last1=Pries|first1=Rachel J.|date=2002|title=Families of wildly ramified covers of curves|url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3ed0/53205bfab504847977814d405c5a0fb8e787.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107022100/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3ed0/53205bfab504847977814d405c5a0fb8e787.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-11-07|journal=Amer. J. Math.|volume=124|issue=4|pages=737–768|access-date=5 November 2017|doi=10.1353/ajm.2002.0024|s2cid=18044517}} Pries studied smooth Galois covers of curves, ramified over only one point. In a second highly cited paper, Hyperelliptic curves with prescribed p-torsion,{{cite journal|last1=Glass|first1=Darren|last2=Pries|first2=Rachel|date=2005|title=Hyperelliptic curves with prescribed p-torsion|journal=Manuscripta Math.|volume=117|issue=3|pages=299–317|arxiv=math/0401008|bibcode=2004math......1008G|doi=10.1007/s00229-005-0559-0|s2cid=6649601}} Pries and co-author Darren Glass, proved several results regarding the existence of Jacobian varieties having interesting p-torsion as measured in terms of invariants such as the p-rank and the a-number.

Pries serves on the Steering Committee of Women in Number Theory (WIN),{{cite web|title=Women in Number Theory Steering Committee|url=https://womeninnumbertheory.org/steering-committee/|website=Women in Number Theory|access-date=6 November 2017}} a research collaboration community for women mathematicians interested in number theory. She was an editor of Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop (Association for Women in Mathematics Series), which was published by Springer Verlag in 2016.{{cite book|last1=Eischen|first1=Ellen|author1-link=Ellen Eischen|last2=Long|first2=Ling|author2-link=Ling Long (mathematician)|last3=Pries|first3=Rachel|title=Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop (Association for Women in Mathematics Series)|date=2016|publisher=Springer Verlag|isbn=978-3319309743}}

Pries was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Her citation read "for contributions to arithmetic geometry, and for service to the mathematical community."{{r|ams}} Pries was selected as the inaugural lecturer in the Association for Women in Mathematics Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, in 2013.{{cite web|title=Distinguished Speaker Series|url=http://pages.uoregon.edu/uoawm/speakers.html|website=Association for Women in Mathematics, University of Oregon|publisher=University of Oregon|access-date=6 November 2017}} In 2004, Pries was selected as Outstanding Professor in Graduate Instruction by the mathematics graduate students of Colorado State University {{cite web|url=http://www.math.colostate.edu/people/awards.shtml|title=Awards of the Department|website=Colorado State University Mathematics Department|publisher=Colorado State University|access-date=6 November 2017|archive-date=23 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123092621/http://www.math.colostate.edu/people/awards.shtml|url-status=dead}} Pries was elected to the 2023 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics "for supporting the research careers of women through mentorship and advocacy; for her vision and hard work establishing the Women in Numbers workshops and research network; and for broadening the participation of women in mathematics through service and leadership both at her institution and in high-profile national and international programs."{{cite web |title=The AWM Fellows Program: 2023 Class of AWM Fellows |url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2023-awm-fellows/ |website=Association for Women in Mathematics |access-date=23 October 2022}}

• [http://www.math.colostate.edu/~pries/ Rachel Pries' website]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p91DAkDnwfA Dr. Rachel Pries - Number Theory] (2017 video)

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