Lisa Orloff Clark is a New Zealand mathematician, and as of 2023 is a full professor at

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and Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics. She works in the field of algebra and also on inquiry-based learning in mathematics education.

Academic career

Clark completed a

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titled ''Classifying the Type of Groupoid C*-algebras'' at

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in 2004. Clark then joined the faculty of the Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor in 2023. She has published on

C*-algebras In mathematics, specifically in functional analysis, a C∗-algebra (pronounced "C-star") is a Banach algebra together with an involution satisfying the properties of the adjoint. A particular case is that of a complex algebra ''A'' of continuous ...

groupoids In mathematics, especially in category theory and homotopy theory, a groupoid (less often Brandt groupoid or virtual group) generalises the notion of group in several equivalent ways. A groupoid can be seen as a: * '' Group'' with a partial fun ...

, Steinberg algebras and Leavitt path algebras. Clark is the Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington. She is on the editorial board of the ''Journal of Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics''. In 2018 Clark was an associate investigator on a

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led by Astrid an Huef and Iain Raeburn, titled ''Through the looking glass: sharpening the classification program through implications for operator algebras of graphs and groupoids''. In 2021 Clark and van Huef were joint principal investigators on another successful Marsden grant, called ''Establishing a structure theory for C*-algebras of non-Hausdorff groupoids''.

Honours and awards

In 2017 Clark was awarded the

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's top prize, the Kalman Prize for best paper. She was a plenary speaker at the NZMS colloquium in 2019. In 2022 Clark was awarded the

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, a joint award between the New Zealand and London Mathematical Societies. Clark gave lectures at

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and at the

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annual meeting.

Selected works

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References

External links

The groupoid model of Leavitt path algebras
one-hour lecture by Orloff Clark, from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune Science Media Centre. {{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Lisa Orloff New Zealand academics New Zealand women academics New Zealand women mathematicians Dartmouth College alumni Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington Year of birth missing (living people) Living people