Jeanne A. Nielsen Clelland (born 1970)Birth year fro

retrieved 2018-12-03. is an American mathematician specializing in

differential geometry Differential geometry is a Mathematics, mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of Calculus, single variable calculus, vector calculus, lin ...

and its applications to differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at the

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University o ...

, and the author of a textbook on

moving frame In mathematics, a moving frame is a flexible generalization of the notion of a coordinate frame (an ordered basis of a vector space, in conjunction with an origin) often used to study the extrinsic differential geometry of smooth manifolds em ...

s, ''From Frenet to Cartan: The Method of Moving Frames'' (Graduate Studies in Mathematics 178, American Mathematical Society, 2017).

Education

Clelland graduated from

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

in 1991, and stayed at Duke for her graduate studies, completing her doctorate there in 1996. Her dissertation, ''Geometry of Conservation Laws for a Class of Parabolic Partial Differential Equations'', was supervised by Robert Bryant.

Recognition

Clelland was awarded the Alice T. Schafer Prize 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 ...

in 1991. She is also the 2018 winner of the Burton W. Jones Distinguished Teaching Award, from the Rocky Mountain Section of the

Mathematical Association of America The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary edu ...

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