Birge Katharina Huisgen-Zimmermann is a mathematician at

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

specializing in

representation theory Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebra, abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their element (set theory), elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies Module (mathematics), ...

and ring theory.

Life and career

Huisgen-Zimmerman was born in Germany. Her father was the chemistry professor

Rolf Huisgen Rolf Huisgen (; 13 June 1920 – 26 March 2020) was a German chemist. His importance in synthetic organic chemistry extends to the enormous influence he had in post-war chemistry departments in Germany and Austria, due to a large number of his ...

. She received her Ph.D. from

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

in 1974 under the supervision of Friedrich Kasch. Huisgen-Zimmerman received her

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from

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; ) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Established in 1868 by King Ludwig II ...

in 1979, and stayed on the faculty at the Technical University of Munich until 1981. She became a researcher at the

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft The German Research Foundation ( ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2019, the DFG had a funding bu ...

, a faculty member at the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (U of I, UIowa, or Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized int ...

, and a professor with a personal chair at the

University of Passau The University of Passau (''Universität Passau'' in German) is a public research university located in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1973, it is the youngest university in Bavaria and consequently has the most modern campus in the ...

, before moving to Santa Barbara in 1987.

Awards and honors

In 2012, Huisgen-Zimmerman became a fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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Selected publications

* Zimmermann-Huisgen, Birge: Pure submodules of direct products of free modules. ''Math. Ann.'' 224 (1976), no. 3, 233–245. * Zimmermann-Huisgen, Birge; Zimmermann, Wolfgang: On the sparsity of representations of rings of pure global dimension zero. ''Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.'' 320 (1990), no. 2, 695–711. * Zimmermann-Huisgen, Birge: Homological domino effects and the first finitistic dimension conjecture. ''Invent. Math.'' 108 (1992), no. 2, 369–383. * Eklof, Paul C.; Huisgen-Zimmermann, Birge; Shelah, Saharon: Torsion modules, lattices and p-points. ''Bull. London Math. Soc.'' 29 (1997), no. 5, 547–555
arXiv preprint
(For the definition of p-point see Glossary of general topology#P.) * Huisgen-Zimmermann, Birge: Purity, algebraic compactness, direct sum decompositions, and representation type. In: Krause, H.; Ringel, C.M. (eds.) ''Infinite length modules'' (Bielefeld, 1998), 331–367, Trends Math., ''Birkhäuser, Basel'', 2000.

References

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