Gordana Matic is a Croatian-American mathematician who works as a professor at the

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. Her research concerns

low-dimensional topology In mathematics, low-dimensional topology is the branch of topology that studies manifolds, or more generally topological spaces, of four or fewer dimensions. Representative topics are the theory of 3-manifolds and 4-manifolds, knot theory, ...

and

contact geometry In mathematics, contact geometry is the study of a geometric structure on smooth manifolds given by a hyperplane distribution in the tangent bundle satisfying a condition called 'complete non-integrability'. Equivalently, such a distribution ...

. Matic earned her doctorate from the

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in 1986, under the supervision of Ronald J. Stern, and worked as a

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at the

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before joining the University of Georgia faculty. Matic was the Spring 2012 speaker in the

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Distinguished Women in Mathematics Lecture Series. In 2014, she was elected as a

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of the

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"for contributions to low-dimensional and contact topology."List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2015-01-18.

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