Jill C. Pipher | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Brown University |
| Doctoral advisor | John B. Garnett |
Jill Catherine Pipher (born December 14, 1955, inHarrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American mathematician. She served as president of theAmerican Mathematical Society (AMS, 2019–2020).[1] and president of theAssociation for Women in Mathematics (AWM, 2011–2013). She was the first director of theInstitute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM, 2011–2016), anNSF-funded mathematics institute based inProvidence, Rhode Island.[2]
Pipher's research areas includeharmonic analysis,Fourier analysis,partial differential equations, andcryptography. She has published more than 60 research articles and has coauthored with Jeffrey Hoffstein and Joseph Silverman a textbook titledAn Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography.[3]
Pipher is currently theElisha Benjamin Andrews Professor of Mathematics atBrown University. She received aB.A. from theUniversity of California, Los Angeles in 1979 and a PhD from UCLA in 1985 under the direction ofJohn B. Garnett.[4] She taught at theUniversity of Chicago (1985–1990) before taking a position at Brown in 1990, where she served as chair of the Mathematics Department from 2005 to 2008.
In 1996, Pipher, along withJeffrey Hoffstein,Daniel Lieman andJoseph Silverman, founded NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc., now part of Security Innovation, Inc. to market their cryptographic algorithms,NTRUEncrypt andNTRUSign.
In 2012 she became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[5] In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of theAssociation for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[6] In 2019 she was named aSIAM Fellow "for her profound contributions in analysis and partial differential equations, groundbreaking work in public key cryptography, and outstanding scientific leadership".[7] She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science.[8]
In 2014 Pipher was aMathematical Association of America Invited Lecturer at theJoint Mathematics Meetings, speaking onThe Mathematics of Lattice-based Cryptography[9] TheAssociation for Women in Mathematics named her as theirNoether Lecturer for 2018.[10]
In 2019–2020, she served as the 65th president of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[11] She was the third woman to be elected to this position, followingJulia Robinson (1983–1984) andCathleen Synge Morawetz (1995–1996).
