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Katharine A. Ott |
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NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Mathematics University of Kentucky
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733 Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506-0027 Telephone: (859) 257-6815 Fax: (859) 257-4078 Email: kott@ms.uky.edu
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Research Interests
Real, Complex and Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations
· Curriculum Vitae (PDF) |
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Publications
1. Counterexamples to the well-posedness of Lp transmission boundary value problems for the Laplacian, with I. Mitrea, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 135 (2007), 2037-2043. PDF (MathSciNet) 2. Electromagnetic scattering from perturbed surfaces, with I. Mitrea, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 30 (2007), 861-876. PDF (MathSciNet) 3. The mixed problem for the Laplacian in Lipschitz domains, with R. Brown, submitted. PDF (arxiv) 4. Spectral theory and iterative methods for the Maxwell system in non-smooth domains, with I. Mitrea, submitted. 5. Bi-parameter paraproducts, after C. Muscalu, J. Pipher, T. Tao and C. Thiele, proceedings for the 2009 Mathematical Research Community and Summer School on Harmonic Analysis, Carleson Theorems, and Multilinear Analysis, Snowbird Resort (Utah). PDF 6. The solvability of the radiosity equation on unoccluded curves, technical report for the 2008 Virginia Space Grant Consortium Student Research Exhibition. PDF 7. Electromagnetic scattering from perturbed surfaces, technical report for the 2007 Virginia Space Grant Consortium Student Research Exhibition. PDF 8. Blind image deconvolution: Motion blur estimation, with F. Krahmer, Y. Lin, B. McAdoo, J. Wang, D. Widemann, and B. Wohlberg (Mentor), technical report for the Mathematical Modeling in Industry X Workshop, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, MN. PDF 9. Transmission boundary value problems in elasticity, with I. Mitrea, technical report for the 2006 Virginia Space Grant Consortium Student Research Exhibition. PDF |
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Outreach and other Mathematical Activities
Science Writing · “Numbers to Remember By,” a book review of Yoko Ogawa’s novel The Housekeeper and the Professor, appearing in Science 324, 5932 (5 June 2009). · “My Summer of Science Journalism,” The BIG Notebook — A Newsletter of the MAA Special Interest Group for Mathematics in Business, Industry and Government, article on my experience as a science journalist, August 2008. · “Show, Don’t Teach,” SIAM News, front-page article regarding my experience as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow, November 19, 2006. · AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow, one of 14 fellows selected nationwide by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This fellowship placed me at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel to work for 10 weeks as a science journalist in the summer of 2006 . My fellowship was sponsored in part by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. · Link to my newspaper articles
Undergraduate Talks
“The Netflix Prize: How Mathematics Can Predict Movies You’ll Love” · Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematics Lecturer Series , September 2009 · UK Math Club, April 2009
Programs for Women · 2009 Program for Women and Mathematics: Geometric PDE, Institute for Advanced Studies, June 2009. Teaching assistant for I. Mitrea for the beginning lecture course: Partial Differential Equations on Surfaces in Rn. · Noetherian Rings, a group for women in the department of mathematics at the University of Kentucky. Co-founder and member, 2009—present. · IMA Workshop on Careers Options for Women in the Mathematical Sciences , April 2009. · Poster: Boundary Value Problems in Non-Smooth Domains
· Girls and Mathematics, a week-long mathematics enrichment program for middle-school girls at the University of Virginia , Summer 2007.
· Sonja Kovalevskya High School Mathematics Day, a day-long program offered free to high-school women and their teachers to encourage females to continue their study of mathematics. Sponsored by the AWM and the Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia. · Thomas Jefferson and Mathematics Seminar, a semester-long enrichment program for undergraduate women exploring the connections between Thomas Jefferson and mathematics. Sponsored by the Mead Endowment, University of Virginia, Spring 2007. · Thomas Jefferson’s Wheel Cipher, a presentation by K. Ott (PDF).
· Women in Mathematics and Sciences (WIMS), University of Virginia. Member 2006 — 2008.
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