Natasha Flyer (born 1969) is an American
earth scientist and
applied mathematician known for her expertise on
radial basis functions. She works as a research scientist in the Analytics and Integrative Machine Learning laboratory of the
National Center for Atmospheric Research, and is also an affiliate of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Education and career
Flyer majored in geological sciences at
Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...
, graduating with a bachelor's degree there in 1993. She went to 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 ...
for graduate study in atmospheric and space science, and completed her Ph.D. in 1999. Her dissertation was ''The Effect of Upper Level Features in The Atmosphere on Linear Theory and Linearized Benjamin-Davis-Ono Theory for Internal Gravity Waves''.
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research from 1999 to 2000, and continued her postdoctoral study with the support of an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 2000 to 2003. In 2003, she returned to the National Center for Atmospheric Research with a permanent appointment as a scientist.
Book
With , her husband, Flyer is the author of a book on
radial basis functions, ''A Primer on Radial Basis Functions with Applications to the Geosciences'' (CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics 87,
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2015).
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1969 births
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
American women earth scientists
Northwestern University alumni
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
21st-century American women mathematicians