Margaret M. Bayer is an American mathematician working in

polyhedral combinatorics Polyhedral combinatorics is a branch of mathematics, within combinatorics and discrete geometry, that studies the problems of counting and describing the faces of convex polyhedra and higher-dimensional convex polytopes. Research in polyhedral comb ...

. She is a professor of mathematics at the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

Education

Bayer earned her Ph.D. in 1983 from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

. Her dissertation, ''Facial Enumeration in Polytopes, Spheres and Other Complexes'', was supervised by

Louis Billera Louis Joseph Billera is a Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University. Career Billera completed his B.S. at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1964. He earned his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 1968, under the joint supervi ...

Recognition

Bayer was a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer for 1998–1999. In 2012 the university of Kansas named Bayer as one of 24 "Women of Distinction" among their students, faculty, and alumnae. Bayer was one of the inaugural winners of the

AWM Service Award The AWM Service Award is an annual award given by the Association for Women in Mathematics. The AWM depends largely on the work of volunteers. In order to recognize individuals for helping to promote and support women in mathematics through exce ...

of the

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

, in 2013, for her work editing book reviews for the ''AWM Newsletter''. In 2020 Bayer was named a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics "for her far-reaching work on the combinatorics and geometry of polytopes; for a long record of successfully mentoring, advising, and supervising women in mathematics at all levels; and for her service to AWM and the profession."

Personal life

She was married to Ralph Byers (1955–2007), also a mathematician at the University of Kansas; they had two daughters.

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