Lisa Orloff Clark
New Zealand mathematician
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Lisa Orloff Clark is a New Zealand mathematician, and as of 2023 is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington and head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics. She works in the field of algebra and also on inquiry-based learning in mathematics education.
- Classifying the Type of Groupoid C*-algebras (2004)
Lisa Orloff Clark | |
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| Awards | Aitken Lectureship |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Dartmouth College |
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| Dana Peter Williams | |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
Academic career
Clark completed a PhD titled Classifying the Type of Groupoid C*-algebras at Dartmouth College in 2004.[1] Clark then joined the faculty of the Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor in 2023.[2] She has published on C*-algebras, groupoids, Steinberg algebras and Leavitt path algebras.
Clark is the Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington.[3] She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics.[4]
In 2018 Clark was an associate investigator on a Marsden grant led by Astrid an Huef and Iain Raeburn, titled Through the looking glass: sharpening the classification program through implications for operator algebras of graphs and groupoids.[5] In 2021 Clark and an Huef were joint principal investigators on another successful Marsden grant, called Establishing a structure theory for C*-algebras of non-Hausdorff groupoids.[6][2]
Honours and awards
In 2017 Clark was awarded the New Zealand Mathematical Society's top prize, the Kalman Prize for best paper.[2][7] She was a plenary speaker at the NZMS colloquium in 2019.[8]
In 2022 Clark was awarded the Aitken Lectureship, a joint award between the New Zealand and London Mathematical Societies. Clark gave lectures at Queen's University Belfast, Durham University, Aberystwyth University and at the London Mathematical Society annual meeting.[9]
Selected works
- Howard Barnum; Jonathan Barrett; Lisa Orloff Clark; Matthew Leifer; Robert Spekkens; Nicholas Stepanik; Alex Wilce; Robin Wilke (2010). "Entropy and information causality in general probabilistic theories". New Journal of Physics. 12 (3) 033024. arXiv:0909.5075. Bibcode:2010NJPh...12c3024B. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/12/3/033024. Zbl 1360.81026. Wikidata Q62105858.
- Jonathan Brown; Lisa Orloff Clark; Cynthia Farthing; Aidan Sims (2013). "Simplicity of algebras associated to étale groupoids". Semigroup Forum. 88 (2): 433–452. doi:10.1007/s00233-013-9546-z. Zbl 1304.46046. Wikidata Q123777470.
- Lisa Orloff Clark; Claire Flynn; Astrid an Huef (2014). "Kumjian–Pask algebras of locally convex higher-rank graphs". Journal of Algebra. 399: 445–474. doi:10.1016/j.jalgebra.2013.09.041. Zbl 1303.16003. Wikidata Q123777469.
- Lisa Orloff Clark; Ellis Dawson (2022). "Strong gradings on Leavitt path algebras, Steinberg algebras and their $$C^*$$-completions". Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics. 58 (2): 453–464. doi:10.1007/s10801-022-01191-6. Wikidata Q123777467.