Maria-Carme Calderer

Maria-Carme T. Calderer is a professor of mathematics at University of Minnesota. Her research concerns applied mathematics.

Maria-Carme Calderer
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Heriot-Watt University
Known for	Applied mathematics
Spouse(s)	Douglas Arnold
Awards	Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Minnesota
Thesis	Dynamical Behavior of Nonlinear Elastic and Viscoelastic Spherical Shells (1980)
Doctoral advisor	John MacLeod Ball

Career

Calderer received her Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University in 1980.[1] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications from 1984 to 1987, first as a postdoctoral researcher, and then as a visiting professor.[2] She worked at Penn State from 1989 until 2002, when she joined the faculty of University of Minnesota.

Awards and honors

In 2000, Calderer received the Teresa Cohen Service Award from Penn State University.[3]

In 2012, Calderer became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

Personal life

Calderer was raised in Barcelona, Spain.[5] She is married to Douglas Arnold, professor of mathematics at University of Minnesota.

Selected publications

• Bauman, Patricia; Calderer, M. Carme; Liu, Chun; Phillips, Daniel The phase transition between chiral nematic and smectic A∗ liquid crystals. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 165 (2002), no. 2, 161–186.
• Calderer, M. Carme; Liu, Chun Liquid crystal flow: dynamic and static configurations. SIAM J. Appl. Math. 60 (2000), no. 6, 1925–1949.

References

1. Maria-Carme Calderer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. "University of Minnesota - Newsletter of the School of Mathematics January 2002". Archived from the original on January 23, 2015. Retrieved Feb 1, 2015.
3. "Teresa Cohen Service Award". Penn State University. Retrieved Feb 1, 2015.
4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
5. Jensen, Jill (March 6, 2012). "Data shows men dominate science and engineering faculty at the U". Minnesota Daily. University of Minnesota. Archived from the original on May 18, 2012. Retrieved Feb 1, 2015.