Jane M. Hawkins

Jane Margaret Hawkins is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Her research concerns dynamical systems and complex dynamics, including cellular automata and Julia sets. More recent research has included work on cellular automata models for the spread of HIV, Hepatitis C and Ebola.[2]

Education and career

Hawkins earned a B.A. in mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross, a Jesuit college in Worcester, Massachusetts,[1] and received a Marshall Scholarship for graduate studies in the U.K. She then moved to England for graduate studies, receiving her Ph.D. from University of Warwick in 1981 under the supervision of Klaus Schmidt. Her dissertation, Type III Diffeomorphisms of Manifolds, concerned dynamical systems and ergodic theory.[3]

She taught at the State University of New York, Stony Brook from 1980 to 1987, before moving to the University of North Carolina.

Service

In 2004, Hawkins presented testimony to a subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations in support of grants to mathematical research.,[4] and again in 2012.[5] She has been Treasurer of the American Mathematical Society and chair of the AMS Investment Committee since 2011.[6] Hawkins has done a lot of outreach for women in mathematics, most notably participating in the George Washington University's Summer Program for Women in Math (SPWM) as a faculty member, guest lecturer, and panel moderator between 1999 and its final year in 2013.[7]

Recognition

Hawkins was the first female valedictorian at the College of the Holy Cross.[8] In 2012, Hawkins became an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[9]

Personal

Hawkins is married to mathematician Michael E. Taylor, whom she credits with encouraging her with continuing in research.[1]

References
  1. Jane M. Hawkins; J. Hawkins, How I became a mathematician.
  2. J. Hawkins and D. Molinek, Markov cellular automata models for chronic disease progression, International Journal of Biomathematics, 8 (2015).
  3. Jane Hawkins at the Mathematics Genealogy Project; J. Hawkins, Dynamics of mathematical groups, in I, Mathematician, ed. P. Casazza, S.G. Krantz and R.D. Ruden (Mathematical Association of America, 2015), 192-202.
  4. Hawkins presents testimony, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 51 (2004), 668.
  5. Hawkins Testimony 3/22/12
  6. List of Officers and Lecturers of the American Mathematical Society
  7. George Washington University SPWM
  8. Holy Cross Milestones
  9. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society


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