Irina Mitrea is a Romanian-American mathematician who works as professor and department chair at the Department of Mathematics of

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. She is known for her contributions to

harmonic analysis Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with investigating the connections between a function and its representation in frequency. The frequency representation is found by using the Fourier transform for functions on unbounded do ...

, particularly on the interface of this field with

partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to ho ...

geometric measure theory In mathematics, geometric measure theory (GMT) is the study of geometric properties of sets (typically in Euclidean space) through measure theory. It allows mathematicians to extend tools from differential geometry to a much larger class of surfac ...

scattering theory In physics, scattering is a wide range of physical processes where moving particles or radiation of some form, such as light or sound, are forced to deviate from a straight trajectory by localized non-uniformities (including particles and radiat ...

complex analysis Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates functions of complex numbers. It is helpful in many branches of mathematics, including algebraic ...

and

validated numerics Validated numerics, or rigorous computation, verified computation, reliable computation, numerical verification () is numerics including mathematically strict error (rounding error, truncation error, discretization error) evaluation, and it is one ...

. She is also known for her efforts to promote mathematics among young women..

Education and career

Mitrea earned a master's degree from the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

in 1993, and completed her doctorate in 2000 at the

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under the supervision of

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and Mikhail Safonov. Her dissertation was ''Spectral Properties of Elliptic Layer Potentials on Non-Smooth Domains''. Her publications include over fifty research articles and three books published by Springer‐Verlag,

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, and

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. After temporary positions at the

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and

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

, she joined the faculty of the

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in 2004, and earned tenure there in 2007. She also taught at the

Worcester Polytechnic Institute The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a Private university, private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1865, WPI was one of the United States' first engineering and technology universities and now h ...

before moving to Temple. She is the founder of the Girls and Mathematics Program at Temple University, a week-long summer camp in mathematics for middle-school girls. She is a member of the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences, an organization providing mentorship to "build a national community of students, faculty, and staff who will work together to transform our departments, colleges, and universities into institutions where all students are welcome."

Recognition

In 2008, Mitrea won the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of th
Association for Women in Mathematics
Also printed i
''MAA Focus'' 28(5), May/June 2008

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, p. 5. In 2014, she was elected as a

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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, ...

"for contributions to partial differential equations and related fields as well as outreach to women and under-represented minorities at all educational levels."List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2015-01-18. Also in 2014, Mitrea was awarded a Von Neumann Fellowship at the

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. In 2015 she received the AWM Service Award from the

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

. She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitrea, Irina Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Romanian mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians University of Bucharest alumni University of Minnesota alumni University of Virginia faculty Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty Temple University faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics 20th-century American women mathematicians 21st-century American women mathematicians