Marie A. Vitulli

Marie Vitulli
Born (1949-11-19) November 19, 1949 (age 74)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBA, University of Rochester, 1971
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1976
Known forSeminormal rings, valuations on commutative rings
AwardsAWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer
2017 AWM Service Award
2019 AWM Fellow
2020 AMS Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oregon
Thesis Weierstrass Points and Monomial Curves  (1976)
Doctoral advisorDock Sang Rim
Websitepages.uoregon.edu/vitulli/

Marie A. Vitulli is an American mathematician and professor emerita at the University of Oregon.

Mathematics

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Vitulli's research is in commutative algebra and applications to algebraic geometry. More specific topics in her research include deformations of monomial curves, seminormal rings, the weak normality of commutative rings and algebraic varieties, weak subintegrality, and the theory of valuations for commutative rings.[1] Along with her colleague David K. Harrison, she developed a unified valuation theory for rings with zero divisors that generalized both Krull and Archimedean valuations.[2]

She was an undergraduate at the University of Rochester[1] and obtained her PhD in 1976 at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dock-Sang Rim. Her dissertation was Weierstrass Points and Monomial Curves.[3] The title of her 2014 Falconer lecture was "From Algebraic to Weak Subintegral Extensions in Algebra and Geometry."[4]

Activism

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Vitulli and political scientist Gordon Lafer led an effort to unionize faculty at the University of Oregon beginning in the spring of 2007.[5] This effort eventually led to the formation of the United Academics at the University of Oregon.[6]

Vitulli heads the Women in Math Project at the University of Oregon.[1][7] With Mary Flahive, Vitulli has also studied patterns in hiring among women mathematicians.[8] Vitulli has also written about the difficulties involved with documenting the lives of female mathematicians on Wikipedia.[9]

Vitulli participated in the panel discussion held as the first official activity of Spectra at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings.[10] She endowed the MSRI Marie A. Vitulli Graduate Fellowship to "support one advanced graduate student in mathematics, per academic year, to attend an MSRI program with their advisor."[11]

Recognition

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Vitulli was recognized as an AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer in 2014.[1] Vitulli received a Service Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2017.[12]

She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[13] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to commutative algebra, and for service to the mathematical community particularly in support of women in mathematics".[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Marie A. Vitulli". Past Falconer Lecturers. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Harrison, D. K.; Vitulli, M. A. (1989). "V-Valuations of a Commutative Ring I". J. Algebra. 65 (3): 264–292. doi:10.1016/0021-8693(89)90305-0. MR 1024992.Free access icon
  3. ^ Marie A. Vitulli at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Marie A. Vitulli named 2014 AWM-MAA Falconer Lecturer". Center for the Study of Women in Society. University of Oregon. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
  5. ^ Baez, David. "Labor Pains". Eugene Weekly. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  6. ^ "Our History". United Academics of the University of Oregon.
  7. ^ The Women in Math Project, University of Oregon, retrieved March 9, 2018
  8. ^ Case, Bettye Anne; Leggett, Anne M. (2016), Complexities: Women in Mathematics, Princeton University Press, p. 107, ISBN 9781400880164
  9. ^ Vitulli, Marie A. (2017). "Writing Women in Mathematics into Wikipedia". arXiv:1710.11103 [math.HO].
  10. ^ Bryant, Robert; Buckmire, Ron; Khadjavi, Lily; Lind, Doug (June–July 2019). "The Origins of Spectra, an Organization for LGBT Mathematicians" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 66 (6): 875–882. doi:10.1090/noti1890.
  11. ^ MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  12. ^ "AWM service award 2017". Association for Women in Mathematics.
  13. ^ 2019 Class of AWM Fellows, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved October 7, 2018
  14. ^ "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
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