Julia Gordon is a Canadian mathematician at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

whose research concerns

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...

, including

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), ...

, -adic groups, motivic integration, and the

Langlands program In mathematics, the Langlands program is a set of conjectures about connections between number theory, the theory of automorphic forms, and geometry. It was proposed by . It seeks to relate the structure of Galois groups in algebraic number t ...

. Gordon earned her PhD at the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

in 2003 under the supervision of Thomas C. Hales and Robert Griess. Her dissertation was ''Some Applications of Motivic Integration to the Representation Theory of P-adic Groups''. After postdoctoral research at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

and the Fields Institute, she joined the University of British Columbia faculty in 2006. , she is an associate professor there.

Awards

In 2017, Gordon won the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics. She is the 2019 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Julia Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian mathematicians 21st-century Canadian women mathematicians University of Michigan alumni Academic staff of the University of British Columbia