Rubí Elena Rodríguez Moreno is a Chilean mathematician in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of La Frontera, a founder of the Iberoamerican Congress on Geometry, and the former president of the Chilean Mathematical Society. Her research specialties include

complex geometry In mathematics, complex geometry is the study of geometric structures and constructions arising out of, or described by, the complex numbers. In particular, complex geometry is concerned with the study of spaces such as complex manifolds and co ...

Fuchsian group In mathematics, a Fuchsian group is a discrete subgroup of PSL(2,R). The group PSL(2,R) can be regarded equivalently as a group of isometries of the hyperbolic plane, or conformal transformations of the unit disc, or conformal transformations ...

Riemann surface In mathematics, particularly in complex analysis, a Riemann surface is a connected one-dimensional complex manifold. These surfaces were first studied by and are named after Bernhard Riemann. Riemann surfaces can be thought of as deformed ve ...

s, and

abelian varieties In mathematics, particularly in algebraic geometry, complex analysis and algebraic number theory, an abelian variety is a projective algebraic variety that is also an algebraic group, i.e., has a group law that can be defined by regular func ...

Education

Rodríguez earned a master's degree in mathematics at the in 1975. She completed her Ph.D. in 1981 at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

; her dissertation, ''On Schottky-Type Groups with Applications to Riemann Surfaces with Nodes'', was supervised by

Lipman Bers Lipman Bers ( Latvian: ''Lipmans Berss''; May 22, 1914 – October 29, 1993) was a Latvian-American mathematician, born in Riga, who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. He was also k ...

Career

Rodríguez worked for the

University of Santiago, Chile The University of Santiago, Chile (Usach) ( es, Universidad de Santiago de Chile) is one of the oldest public universities in Chile. The institution was born as ''Escuela de Artes y Oficios'' (Spanish: ''School of Arts and Crafts'') in 1849 by I ...

, but was dismissed in 1985, during the regime of

Augusto Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of ...

, for unstated but likely-political reasons. After many colleagues appealed the decision, she was hired by the Federico Santa María Technical University. She was president of the Chilean Mathematical Society from 2006 to 2010.

Books

Rodríguez is the co-author of the book ''Complex Analysis: In the Spirit of Lipman Bers'' (

Graduate Texts in Mathematics Graduate Texts in Mathematics (GTM) ( ISSN 0072-5285) is a series of graduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by Springer-Verlag. The books in this series, like the other Springer-Verlag mathematics series, are yellow books of a standa ...

, 2007, 2nd ed., 2013, with Irwin Kra and Jane Piore Gilman). She is the co-editor of ''Lipman Bers, a Life in Mathematics'' (American Mathematical Society, 2015, with

Linda Keen Linda Jo Goldway Keen (born August 9, 1940, in New York City, New York) is a mathematician and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Since 1965, she has been a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehma ...

and Irwin Kra).

References

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