Estelle Basor

Estelle Basor
Born1947 (age 77–78)
NationalityAmerican
TitleProfessor emeritus
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
ThesisAsymptotic Formulas for Toeplitz Determinants (1975)
Doctoral advisorHarold Widom
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics
InstitutionsCalifornia Polytechnic State University
American Institute of Mathematics
Main interestsOperator theory
Random matrices

Estelle Lucille Basor (born 1947)[1] is an American mathematician interested in operator theory and the theory of random matrices. She is professor emeritus of mathematics at the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly),[2] and deputy director of the American Institute of Mathematics.[3]

Education and career

Basor earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1969, and completed a Ph.D. there in 1975.[3] Her dissertation, supervised by Harold Widom, was Asymptotic Formulas for Toeplitz Determinants.[4]

She joined the Cal Poly faculty in 1976, and taught there until retiring in 2008.[3][2]

She served as an American Mathematical Society Council member at large from 2011 to 2013.[5]

Recognition

At Cal Poly, she was the 2005 winner of the Distinguished Research, Creative Activity and Professional Development Award, and a colloquium in her and professor Rami Shani’s honor was held in 2006.[6] She was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[7]

Personal life

Basor's husband,[8] Kent E. Morrison, is also a mathematician who went to school with her at Santa Cruz, worked with her at Cal Poly, and is now associated with the American Institute of Mathematics.[9]

References

  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-01.
  2. ^ a b Faculty and staff directory, Cal Poly Mathematics Department
  3. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2017-11-04
  4. ^ Estelle Basor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "AMS Committees", American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2023-03-29
  6. ^ "Colloquium to honor Estelle Basor and Rami Shani", Cal Poly Report, April 19, 2006
  7. ^ 2018 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-11-03
  8. ^ "Birth announcements", Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 4, 1975, Jan. 24 at 4:03 a m. to Mr. and Mrs Kent Evans Morrison (Estelle Lucille Basor) ... girl, Sally Ann
  9. ^ Kent E. Morrison, American Institute of Mathematics, retrieved 2017-11-03