Susan Loepp
{{short description|American mathematician}}
Susan Renee Loepp (born 1967)Birth year from [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-loepp,%20susan%20renee$1967/ WorldCat identities], retrieved 2019-01-13. is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Williams College.[http://math.williams.edu/faculty/ Faculty listing], Williams College, retrieved 2014-12-25. Her research concerns commutative algebra.
Professional career
Loepp graduated from Bethel College (Kansas) in 1989,[http://mathalliance.org/?mentor=susanloepp Susan Loepp], The National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences, retrieved 2014-12-25. and earned her Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Texas at Austin, under the supervision of Raymond Heitmann.{{mathgenealogy|name=Susan Renee Loepp|id=13189}} After postdoctoral studies at the University of Nebraska she took her present faculty position at Williams. She has publications in Journal of Algebra and Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra.
Book
With William Wootters, she is the co-author of the book Protecting Information: From Classical Error Correction to Quantum Cryptography (Cambridge University Press, 2006). The book covers topics in quantum cryptography and quantum computing and the potential impacts of quantum physics. These potential impacts include quantum computers which, if built, could crack our currently used public-key cryptosystems, and quantum cryptography which promises to provide an alternative to these cryptosystems.[https://www.iacr.org/books/2012_ca_LoeppWootters_ProtectingInfo.pdf Review of Protecting Information] by Fan Junjie (March 29, 2012), International Association for Cryptologic Research.[http://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/protecting-information-from-classical-error-correction-to-quantum-cryptography Review of Protecting Information] by Darren Glass (April 5, 2007), MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
Awards and honors
In 2007, Loepp won the Young Alumnus Award from Bethel College.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bethelks.edu/alumni/alumni-awards/previous-recipients|title=Previous Recipients {{!}} Bethel College|website=www.bethelks.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-01-17}} In 2010, she won the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America’s Teaching Award.{{Cite web|url=http://sections.maa.org/northeastern/awards.html|title=Awards -- Northeastern Section of the MAA|website=sections.maa.org|access-date=2020-01-17}} In 2012, she won a Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics from the Mathematical Association of America, which honors “college or university teachers who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful and whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have had influence beyond their own institutions.”[http://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/susan-loepp-award-2012/ Susan Loepp Wins National Award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics], Williams College, January 27, 2012, retrieved 2014-12-25.[http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/teaching-awards/haimo-award-distinguished-teaching/list-of-recipients Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award - List of Recipients], MAA, retrieved 2014-12-25. In 2013, she was elected as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2014-12-25.
Loepp was an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large from 2019-2021.{{Cite web |title=AMS Committees |url=http://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/mal-past.html |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=American Mathematical Society |language=en}}
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