Svetlana Katok (born May 1, 1947) is a Russian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.Svetlana Katok
Association for Women in Mathematics, 2005, retrieved 2013-10-16.

Education and career

Katok grew up in

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, and earned a master's degree from

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

in 1969; however, due to the anti-Semitic and anti-intelligentsia policies of the time, she was denied admission to the doctoral program there and instead worked for several years in the area of early and secondary mathematical education. She immigrated to the US in 1978, and earned her doctorate from the

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in 1983 under the supervision of

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. She joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty in 1990. Katok founded the ''Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical Society'' in 1995; it was renamed in 2007 to the ''Electronic Research Announcements in Mathematical Sciences'', and she remains its managing editor.

Books

Katok is the author of: *''Fuchsian Groups'', Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, University of Chicago Press, 1992. Russian edition, Faktorial Press, Moscow, 2002. *''p-adic Analysis Compared with Real'', Student Mathematical Library, vol. 37, American Math. Soc., 2007. Russian edition, MCCME Press, Moscow, 2004. Additionally, she coedited the book ''MASS Selecta: Teaching and learning advanced undergraduate mathematics'' (American Math. Soc., 2003).

Awards and honors

Katok was the 2004 Emmy Noether Lecturer of the

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. In 2012 she and her husband, mathematician

Anatole Katok Anatoly Borisovich Katok (russian: Анатолий Борисович Каток; August 9, 1944 – April 30, 2018) was an American mathematician with Russian-Jewish origins. Katok was the director of the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at the ...

, both became

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s of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-10-16.

References

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