Maria-Carme T. Calderer (

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, 1951) is a professor of mathematics at

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. Her research concerns

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Career

Calderer received her Ph.D. from

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in 1980. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the

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from 1984 to 1987, first as a postdoctoral researcher, and then as a visiting professor. She worked at

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from 1989 until 2001, when she joined the faculty of

Awards and honors

In 2000 Calderer received the Teresa Cohen Service Award from

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. In 2012 she became a fellow of the

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. In 2022 she will become a fellow of 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 ...

, "For being a role model nationally and internationally due to her outstanding research contributions in the mathematics of materials; for her long record of mentoring, advising, and supervising women in applied mathematics; and for her leadership role in the mathematics community by organizing conferences, workshops, and thematic years."

Personal life

Calderer was raised in Berga, Spain. She is married to Douglas Arnold, one of her fellow professors of mathematics at

Selected publications

* Bauman, Patricia; Calderer, M. Carme; Liu, Chun; Phillips, Daniel The phase transition between chiral nematic and smectic A∗ liquid crystals. ''Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal.'' 165 (2002), no. 2, 161–186. *Calderer, M. Carme; Liu, Chun Liquid crystal flow: dynamic and static configurations. ''SIAM J. Appl. Math.'' 60 (2000), no. 6, 1925–1949.

References

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