Brooke Elizabeth Shipley is an American mathematician. She works as a professor at the

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, where she was head of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science from 2014 to 2022.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2022-11-1. Her research concerns homotopy theory and homological algebra.

Education and career

Shipley graduated from

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in 1990. She earned her Ph.D. in 1995 from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, under the supervision of Haynes Miller, for her work on the convergence of the homology spectral sequence of a cosimplicial space. Shipley then was awarded a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. After postdoctoral studies at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic university, Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend, Indiana, South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin fo ...

and the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

, she joined the faculty of

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and mone ...

in 1998 and earned tenure there in 2002. She then moved to

in 2003. In 2009, Shipley became Co-Principal Investigator on UIC's National Science Foundation's ADVANCE grant to support the Women in Science and Engineering System Transformation (WISEST) program. She served as the director of WISEST from 2012 to 2013. She served as an

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

Council member at large from 2018 to 2020.

Recognition

In 2014, she was elected as a

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of the

"for contributions to homotopy theory and homological algebra as well as for service to the mathematical community."List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2014-12-24. Then in 2016, she became a representative of the Committee of Academic Sponsors at the

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), formerly the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), is an independent nonprofit mathematical research institution on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Califo ...

She and John Greenlees were the joint winners of the 2022

Senior Berwick Prize The Berwick Prize and Senior Berwick Prize are two prizes of the London Mathematical Society awarded in alternating years in memory of William Edward Hodgson Berwick, a previous Vice-President of the LMS. Berwick left some money to be given to the ...

for their paper "An algebraic model for rational torus-equivariant spectra".

Selected Papers

* Brooke Shipley, ''HZ-algebra spectra are differential graded algebras'',

American Journal of Mathematics The ''American Journal of Mathematics'' is a bimonthly mathematics journal published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. History The ''American Journal of Mathematics'' is the oldest continuously published mathematical journal in the United S ...

, 129(2):351–379, 2007. *

Awards

* NSF Career Award (2002-2009) * Purdue University School of Science Outstanding Assistant Professor (2001)

References

External links

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