Nataša Pavlović is a Serbian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the

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. Her research concerns

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and nonlinear

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s.. She is known for her work with

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pioneering an approach to constructing singularities in equations resembling the

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, by transferring a finite amount of energy through an infinitely decreasing sequence of time and length scales. Pavlović earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the

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in 1996, and completed her doctorate from the

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in 2002 under the joint supervision of

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and Nets Katz. After temporary positions at the

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, and

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, she joined the Princeton faculty in 2005, and moved to the University of Texas in 2007. She was a Sloan Research Fellow from 2008 to 2012. In 2015 she was elected as a

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of the

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. From 2013-2015, Pavlović served as a Council Member at Large for the American Mathematical Society.

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