Pallavi Dani is an Indian-American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

and an associate professor of

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

Louisiana State University Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as Louisiana State University (LSU), is an American Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louis ...

(LSU) in

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. Her research area is

geometric group theory Geometric group theory is an area in mathematics devoted to the study of finitely generated groups via exploring the connections between algebraic properties of such groups and topological and geometric properties of spaces on which these group ...

; in particular, she studies

quasi-isometry In mathematics, a quasi-isometry is a function between two metric spaces that respects large-scale geometry of these spaces and ignores their small-scale details. Two metric spaces are quasi-isometric if there exists a quasi-isometry between them. ...

invariant Invariant and invariance may refer to: Computer science * Invariant (computer science), an expression whose value doesn't change during program execution ** Loop invariant, a property of a program loop that is true before (and after) each iteratio ...

s of

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Education and career

Dani received a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the

University of Mumbai University of Mumbai is a public state university in Mumbai. It is one of the largest university systems in the world with over 549,000 students on its campuses and affiliated colleges. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. It was est ...

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. She earned an M.S. in mathematics from the

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in 2001 and her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2005. Her dissertation "Statistical properties of elements in infinite group" was directed by

Benson Farb Benson Stanley Farb (born October 25, 1967) is an American mathematician at the University of Chicago. His research fields include geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology. Early life A native of Norristown, Pennsylvania, Farb earned ...

. After completing her Ph.D. at University of Chicago, Dani held postdoctoral positions at the

University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two territories became the ...

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and

Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

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. Dani joined the tenure stream faculty at

in 2009. She is currently an associate professor of mathematics at LSU. Dani delivered a series of invited lectures on geometric group theory at the

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), formerly the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), is an independent nonprofit mathematical research institution on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Califor ...

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in June 2015. She served on the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

-Simons Travel Grants Committee from 2015 to 2017.

Recognition

In 2016, 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 ...

awarded Dani the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize. The prize, awarded annually to a recently promoted associate professor, allows the recipient to spend a semester in the mathematics department at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

Ithaca, New York Ithaca () is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York (state), New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metrop ...

without teaching obligations. Dani spent the spring 2017 semester at Cornell, where she worked with Tim Riley and interacted with other Cornell faculty members. Dani's research has been supported by grants from the

National Science Foundation The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an Independent agencies of the United States government#Examples of independent agencies, independent agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government that su ...

. She received a

Simons Foundation The Simons Foundation is an American private foundation established in 1994 by Marilyn and James Harris Simons, Jim Simons with offices in New York City. As one of the largest charitable organizations in the United States with assets of over $5 ...

Collaboration Grant to support her research from 2016 to 2018.

Selected publications

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References

External links

* Pallavi Dan
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on MathSciNet * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dani, Pallavi Group theorists 20th-century American women mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American women mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians University of Mumbai alumni University of Chicago alumni Louisiana State University faculty 21st-century Indian women mathematicians 21st-century Indian mathematicians American people of Marathi descent American people of Indian descent Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian emigrants to the United States