Marie A. Vitulli

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

Marie Vitulli
Born (1949-11-19) November 19, 1949
NationalityAmerican
Alma materB.A., University of Rochester, 1971
Ph.D., 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
ThesisWeierstrass Points and Monomial Curves (1976)
Doctoral advisorDock Sang Rim
Websitepages.uoregon.edu/vitulli/

Mathematics

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 Ph.D. 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

Marie 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]

Recognition

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.[11]

She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[12] 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".[13]

References
  1. "Marie A. Vitulli". Past Falconer Lecturers. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 7 March 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.
  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 7 March 2017.
  5. Baez, David. "Labor Pains". Eugene Weekly. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  6. "Our History". United Academics of the University of Oregon.
  7. The Women in Math Project, University of Oregon, retrieved 2018-03-09
  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.
  11. "Katie Kavanagh, Michelle Manes, Maura Mast and Marie Vitulli Receive the Association for Women in Mathematics Service Award". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  12. 2019 Class of AWM Fellows, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2018-10-07
  13. 2020 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2019-11-03
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