Greta Cvetanova Panova ( bg, Грета Цветанова Панова, born 1983 in

Sofia, Bulgaria Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

) is a Bulgarian-American mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her research interests include

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many appl ...

, probability and theoretical computer science.

Education and career

Panova received her B.S. in 2005 from MIT. She received M.A. in 2006 from University of California, Berkeley and Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 2011, under the supervision of Richard Stanley. She was then a postdoc at UCLA (2011-2014), Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (2014-2018), and is currently a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Southern California. She was also Visiting Scholar at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (Fall 2018). Panova has published over 40 papers primarily in

algebraic combinatorics Algebraic combinatorics is an area of mathematics that employs methods of abstract algebra, notably group theory and representation theory, in various combinatorial contexts and, conversely, applies combinatorial techniques to problems in algeb ...

with applications to geometric complexity theory, probability and

statistical mechanics In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods and probability theory to large assemblies of microscopic entities. It does not assume or postulate any natural laws, but explains the macroscopic be ...

. She is currently a co-Editor-in-Chief of the ''

Electronic Journal of Combinatorics The ''Electronic Journal of Combinatorics'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering research in combinatorial mathematics. The journal was established in 1994 by Herbert Wilf (University of Pennsylvania) and Neil Calkin (Georgi ...

''.

Selected awards

Panova was a three time medalist at the

International Mathematical Olympiad The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a mathematical olympiad for pre-university students, and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. It has since been held annually, except i ...

(1999-2001, one gold and two silver medals). She was a third prize winner at the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2001), and a winner of the Best Student Paper Award at the ''Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics Conference'' (FPSAC, 2011). She is a recipient of Katz Fellowship (UC Berkeley), Putnam Fellowship (Harvard), James Mills Peirce Fellowship (Harvard), Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship (UCLA), and von Neumann Fellowship ( IAS). Panova was also an invited plenary speaker at FPSAC 2017 in London. Panova is the recipient of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics ''IMI Award for 2020'' given once every three years to a Bulgarian citizen under the age of 40 for high achievements in the field of mathematics. IMI Award
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Panova, Greta 1983 births Living people Scientists from Sofia Bulgarian emigrants to the United States Harvard University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni University of Southern California faculty University of Pennsylvania faculty Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars 21st-century American mathematicians American women mathematicians Bulgarian women mathematicians 21st-century Bulgarian mathematicians Combinatorialists Probability theorists Theoretical computer scientists 21st-century American women