Maria Elena Schonbek is an Argentine-American mathematician at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research concerns

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and associated

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s such as the Navier–Stokes equations.Maria Schonbek
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Education and career

Schonbek received a bachelor's degree from the University of Buenos Aires. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1976. Her dissertation, ''Boundary Value Problems for the Fitzhugh–Nagumo Equations'', was supervised by

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. Schonbek joined the University of California, Santa Cruz faculty in 1986. Formerly a professor of mathematics there, she has retired to become a professor emeritus. At Santa Cruz, Schonbek advocated replacing the campus's system of narrative evaluations of student performance in each course with the more standard system of

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s used at most other US universities.

Recognition

In 2012, Schonbek became a member of the inaugural class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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References

Living people Argentine mathematicians Argentine women mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians University of Buenos Aires alumni University of Michigan alumni University of California, Santa Cruz faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 20th-century American women mathematicians 21st-century American women mathematicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-mathematician-stub