Susan Marie Hermiller is an American mathematician specializing in the computational, combinatorial, and

geometric Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is ca ...

theory of

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. She is a Willa Cather Professor of Mathematics and a former Graduate Chair for Mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Education and career

Hermiller earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Ohio State University in 1984. She went to Cornell University for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in 1987 and completing her Ph.D. in 1992. Her

doctoral advisor A doctoral advisor (also dissertation director, dissertation advisor; or doctoral supervisor) is a member of a university faculty whose role is to guide graduate students who are candidates for a doctorate, helping them select coursework, as well ...

was Kenneth Brown, and her dissertation was '' Rewriting Systems for

Coxeter Groups In mathematics, a Coxeter group, named after Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, H. S. M. Coxeter, is an group (mathematics), abstract group that admits a group presentation, formal description in terms of Reflection (mathematics), reflections (or Kal ...

''. After postdoctoral research at the

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), formerly the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), is an independent nonprofit mathematical research institution on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Califo ...

and the University of Melbourne, she became an assistant professor of mathematics at New Mexico State University in 1994. She moved to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1999.

Service

Hermiller was a founding member of the Committee on Women in Mathematics of the American Mathematical Society, in 2013. She also served as the American Mathematical Society representative on the Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences for 2011 through 2013. She was also a former AMS Council member at large.

Recognition

Hermiller became the Willa Cather Professor in 2017. She was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to combinatorial and geometric group theory and for service to the profession, particularly in support of underrepresented groups".

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