Karin Gatermann
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Karin Gatermann (1961–2005) was a German mathematician whose research topics included computer algebra, sum-of-squares optimization, toric varieties, and dynamical systems of chemical reactions.[1][2][3]
Gatermann was born on 18 December 1961,[1] in Bad Oldesloe. She studied mathematics at the University of Hamburg, earning a diploma in 1986 and completing a Ph.D. in 1990 through the university's Institute for Applied Mathematics.[4] Her 1989 dissertation, Gruppentheoretische Konstruktion von symmetrischen Kubaturformeln [Group-theoretic construction of symmetric cubature formulas], was supervised by Bodo Werner.[5]
Career and later life
From 1995 until 2001, Gatermann worked as an assistant lecturer at the Free University of Berlin, earning a habilitation there in 1999.[4]
She came to the University of Western Ontario ("Western University") in Canada from 2001 to 2002, through the support of an Ontario Research Chair in Computer Algebra. After a year in Germany, supported by a Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation, she returned to Western University as an assistant professor in 2004, and was awarded a Tier II Canada Research Chair in late 2004. However, by then she had returned to Germany to be treated for cancer, to which she succumbed on 1 January 2005.[6]
Recognition
A colloquium in honor of Gatermann was held in 2006 in Hamburg.[1][3] In 2009, a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation was dedicated to the memory of Gatermann.[3]
