Katrina Barron
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Katrina Deane Barron (born 1965)[1] is an American mathematician and mathematical physicist whose research concerns vertex operator algebras. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Notre Dame.[2]
Barron has a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago: a 1987 B.S. in physics.[3] She completed her Ph.D. at Rutgers University in 1996, with the dissertation The Supergeometric Interpretation of Vertex Operator Superalgebras, jointly supervised by James Lepowsky and Yi-Zhi Huang.[4]
Before becoming an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Notre Dame in 2001,[3] she was a postdoctoral researcher with Geoffrey Mason at the University of California, Santa Cruz, supported by a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship.[5]
