Izabella Łaba
Polish-Canadian mathematician
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Izabella Łaba (born 1966)[1] is a Polish-Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Her main research specialties are harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics.
Krieger-Nelson Prize (2008)
Izabella Łaba | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 59–60) |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Known for | Harmonic Analysis, Geometric Measure Theory, Additive Combinatorics |
| Awards | Coxeter-James Prize (2004) Krieger-Nelson Prize (2008) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia |
| Website | Website |
Professional career
Łaba earned a master's degree in 1986 from the University of Wrocław.[2] She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1994, under the supervision of Israel Michael Sigal,[2][3] after which she was a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Los Angeles and then an assistant professor at Princeton University before moving to UBC in 2000.[2]
She is one of three founding editors of the Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics.[4]
Contributions
Łaba's thesis research proved the asymptotic completeness of many n-body systems in the presence of a constant magnetic field.[2][5] While at UCLA, with Nets Katz and Terence Tao, she made important contributions to the theory of Kakeya sets, including the best known lower bound on these sets in three-dimensional Euclidean spaces.[2][5] Her more recent work concerns harmonic analysis, periodic tilings, and Falconer's conjecture on sets of distances of points.[5]
Awards and honours
Łaba was the 2004 winner of the Coxeter–James Prize, an annual prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society for outstanding young mathematicians.[2] In 2008, the CMS honoured her again with their Krieger–Nelson Prize, given to an outstanding woman in mathematics.[5]
In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society[6], and in 2016 she was the Etta Z. Falconer lecturer for the Association for Women in Mathematics.[7]