Emma Previato (1952-2022) was a professor of mathematics at

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. Her research concerns algebraic geometry and partial differential equations.

Career

Previato received her Ph.D. from

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in 1983 under

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. She was a faculty member at

. Previato founded

's chapters of the Mathematical Association of America and of the

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Awards and honors

In 2003, Previato received the Mathematical Association of America Northeastern Section's Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics for her work in and out of the classroom, especially her mentoring of students. In 2012, Previato became a fellow of the

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Selected publications

* Adams, M. R.; Harnad, J.; Previato, E. Isospectral Hamiltonian flows in finite and infinite dimensions. I. Generalized Moser systems and moment maps into loop algebras. ''Comm. Math. Phys.'' 117 (1988), no. 3, 451–500. * Previato, Emma. Hyperelliptic quasiperiodic and soliton solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. ''Duke Math. J.'' 52 (1985), no. 2, 329–377. *Eilbeck, J. C.; Enolski, V. Z.; Matsutani, S.; Ônishi, Y.; Previato, E. Abelian functions for trigonal curves of genus three. ''Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2008'', no. 1, Art. ID rnm 140, 38 pp.

References

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