Estelle Basor
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Estelle Basor | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) |
| Title | Professor emeritus |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Thesis | Asymptotic Formulas for Toeplitz Determinants (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold Widom |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | California Polytechnic State University American Institute of Mathematics |
| Main interests | Operator theory Random matrices |
Estelle Lucille Basor (born 1947)[1] is an American mathematician interested in operator theory and the theory of random matrices. She is professor emeritus of mathematics at the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly),[2] and deputy director of the American Institute of Mathematics.[3]
Basor earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1969, and completed a Ph.D. there in 1975.[3] Her dissertation, supervised by Harold Widom, was Asymptotic Formulas for Toeplitz Determinants.[4]
She joined the Cal Poly faculty in 1976, and taught there until retiring in 2008.[3][2]
She served as an American Mathematical Society Council member at large from 2011 to 2013.[5]
Recognition
At Cal Poly, she was the 2005 winner of the Distinguished Research, Creative Activity and Professional Development Award, and a colloquium in her and professor Rami Shani’s honor was held in 2006.[6] She was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[7]
