Dorina Irena-Rita Mitrea (born April 30, 1965) is a Romanian-American mathematician known for her work in

harmonic analysis Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the representation of Function (mathematics), functions or signals as the Superposition principle, superposition of basic waves, and the study of and generalization of the notions of Fo ...

partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a Multivariable calculus, multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be sol ...

s, and the theory of distributions, and in

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. She is a professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics department at

Baylor University Baylor University is a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas. Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the fir ...

Education and career

Mitrea earned a master's degree in 1987 from the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ...

. Her thesis, ''Riemann’s Theorem for Simply Connected Riemann Surfaces'', was supervised by

Cabiria Andreian Cazacu Cabiria Andreian Cazacu (February 19, 1928 – May 22, 2018) was a Romanian mathematician known for her work in complex analysis. She held the chair in mathematical analysis at the University of Bucharest from 1973 to 1975, and was dean of the fa ...

. She completed her Ph.D. in 1996 from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

. Her dissertation, ''Layer Potential Operators and Boundary Value Problems for Differential Forms on Lipschitz Domains'', was supervised by Eugene Barry Fabes. Mitrea joined the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...

mathematics faculty in 1996, and became M. & R. Houchins Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri in 2016. She moved to Baylor as professor and chair in 2019.

Books

Mitrea is the author of: *''Layer Potentials, the Hodge Laplacian, and Global Boundary Problems in Nonsmooth Riemannian Manifolds'' (with Marius Mitrea and Michael E. Taylor, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 2001) *''Calculus Connections: Mathematics for Middle School Teachers'' (with Asma Harcharras, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007) *''Distributions, Partial Differential Equations, and Harmonic Analysis'' (Universitext, Springer, 2013; 2nd ed., 2018) *''Groupoid Metrization Theory: With Applications to Analysis on Quasi-Metric Spaces and Functional Analysis'' (with Irina Mitrea, Marius Mitrea, and Sylvie Monniaux, Birkhäuser, 2013) *''The Hodge-Laplacian: Boundary Value Problems on Riemannian Manifolds'' (with Irina Mitrea, Marius Mitrea, and Michael E. Taylor, De Gruyter, 2016) *''

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-Square Function Estimates on Spaces of Homogeneous Type and on Uniformly Rectifiable Sets'' (with Steve Hofmann, Marius Mitrea, and Andrew J. Morris, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 2017)

Personal life

Mitrea is married to Marius Mitrea. Her husband is also a mathematician, and moved with Mitrea from Missouri to Baylor.

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