Laura Grace DeMarco is a professor of mathematics at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, whose research concerns

dynamical system In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a Function (mathematics), function describes the time dependence of a Point (geometry), point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a ...

s and

complex analysis Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates Function (mathematics), functions of complex numbers. It is helpful in many branches of mathemati ...

Career

DeMarco received her Ph.D. from

in 2002 under the supervision of

Curtis T. McMullen Curtis Tracy McMullen (born May 21, 1958) is an American mathematician who is the Cabot Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmüll ...

. She held an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship and was an L. E. Dickson Instructor at the

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from September 2002 to August 2005. She was also an assistant professor at the

, and then she moved to the

University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a Public university, public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side, Chicago, Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus esta ...

, where she was tenured and promoted to professor. She moved to

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

in 2014, and was promoted to Henry S. Noyes Professor of Mathematics in 2019, before she moved to

in 2020. DeMarco is an organizer of GROW (Graduate Research Opportunities for Women)

undergraduate Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-lev ...

conference.

Awards and honors

In 2013, DeMarco became a fellow of the

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in the inaugural class of fellows. In 2017, she received the AMS

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in Mathematics for her contributions to

complex dynamics Complex dynamics is the study of dynamical systems defined by Iterated function, iteration of functions on complex number spaces. Complex analytic dynamics is the study of the dynamics of specifically analytic functions. Techniques *General **Mo ...

potential theory In mathematics and mathematical physics, potential theory is the study of harmonic functions. The term "potential theory" was coined in 19th-century physics when it was realized that two fundamental forces of nature known at the time, namely gravi ...

, and the emerging field of

arithmetic dynamics Arithmetic dynamics is a field that amalgamates two areas of mathematics, dynamical systems and number theory. Classically, discrete dynamics refers to the study of the iteration of self-maps of the complex plane or real line. Arithmetic dynamics is ...

. In 2020, DeMarco was elected a member of the

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. She was an invited speaker at the 2018

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, speaking in the section on

Dynamical Systems In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in a p ...

and Ordinary Differential Equations. She is the 2023 AWM-AMS Emmy Noether Lecturer in recognition of her "fundamental and influential contributions to complex dynamics, arithmetic dynamics, and arithmetic geometry." Her work with

Holly Krieger Holly Krieger is a professor in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, where she is also the Corfield Fellow at Murray Edwards College. Her current research interests are in Arithmetic dynamics, arithmetic and abstract algebra, algebraic aspec ...

and Hexi Ye, "Uniform Manin–Mumford for a family of genus 2 curves", published in the ''

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'', won the 2020 Alexanderson Award of the

American Institute of Mathematics The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) is one of eight mathematical institutes in the United States, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It was founded in 1994 by John Fry, co-founder of Fry's Electronics, and originally located ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:DeMarco, Laura Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Women mathematicians Dynamical systems theorists Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Harvard University alumni American women mathematicians Northwestern University faculty University of Chicago faculty University of Illinois Chicago faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Harvard University faculty 21st-century American women

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