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| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Functions in W2,2(R2) have Lipschitz graphs (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leon Simon |
Tatiana Toro (born 1964) is a Colombian-American mathematician at theUniversity of Washington.[1] Her research is "at the interface ofgeometric measure theory,harmonic analysis andpartial differential equations".[2] Toro was appointed director of theSimons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute for 2022–2027.[3]
Toro was born in 1964 inColombia,[2][4] and attended theLycée Français Louis Pasteur inBogotá.[5] She competed for Colombia in the 1981International Mathematical Olympiad,[6] and earned a bachelor's degree from theNational University of Colombia.[7] In 1992, she was awarded her PhD atStanford University, under the supervision ofLeon Simon.[8] After short-term positions at theInstitute for Advanced Study,University of California, Berkeley, andUniversity of Chicago, she joined the University of Washington faculty in 1996.[1] Since August 2022, Toro serves as the director ofSimons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI).[4] She will maintain her tenure at the University of Washington throughout her term.[9]
Toro was aninvited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.[10] She became aGuggenheim Fellow in 2015.[2] She was elected as a member of the 2017 class ofFellows of theAmerican Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometric measure theory,potential theory, and free boundary theory".[11] At the University of Washington, she was the Robert R. & Elaine F. Phelps Professor in Mathematics from 2012 to 2016[12] and is currently the Craig McKibben and Sarah Merner Professor. Toro was namedMSRI Chancellor's Professor for 2016–17.[13] She was awarded the 2020Blackwell-Tapia Prize.[14] She was elected fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020.[15] Toro was awarded theICMAM Prize 2022 of the research organization ICMAM Latin America.[16] Toro was honored as theAWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer in 2023.[17]
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