Rosa Orellana
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Rosa C. Orellana is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College.[1][2]
Orellana's excitement for mathematics was recognized early, by one of her elementary school teachers.[3] She is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles,[1] and was the first in her family to earn a college degree. Her undergraduate education also included summer research with Kenneth Millett at the University of California, Santa Barbara on knot theory and its applications to biomolecules.[3]
She completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego.[4] Originally intending to continue her study of knot theory, she shifted to algebraic combinatorics after the knot theorist she planned to work with went on leave.[3] Her dissertation, The Hecke Algebra of Type B at Roots of Unity, Markov Traces and Subfactors, was supervised by Hans Wenzl.[4]
