Susan Jane Colley
Born
Morris

1959 (age 64–65)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
OccupationMathematician
Scientific career
InstitutionsOberlin College

Susan Jane Colley (née Morris, born 1959)[1][2] is an American mathematician. She is Andrew and Pauline Delaney Professor of Mathematics at Oberlin College,[3] and a former editor-in-chief of the American Mathematical Monthly.[4] Her mathematical research specialty is enumerative geometry.[3]

Colley went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an undergraduate,[5] and earned her Ph.D. at MIT in 1983. Her dissertation, On the Enumerative Geometry of Stationary Multiple-points, was supervised by Steven Kleiman.[6] Colley's main research interests are algebraic geometry[7] and related areas, particularly enumerative geometry,[8] intersection theory, and multiple-point theory..

Colley joined the faculty of Oberlin College in 1983 as an assistant professor. She was promoted to professor in 1995 and chaired the Department of Mathematics at Oberlin from 1994—1997 and again from 2011—2014. She was appointed the Andrew and Pauline Delaney Professor of Mathematics in 1999 and still holds that position.[9]

Colley was on the board of editors of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) publication The College Mathematics Journal from 2010 –2018.[10] She served on the board of editors of the MAA publication Focus from 2011–2015.[11] She became editor of the American Mathematical Monthly beginning in 2017; she was the first woman to hold this position.[4]

Colley is the author of the textbook Vector Calculus (Prentice Hall, 1997; 4th ed., Pearson, 2011).[12]

References

  1. ↑ Alberich, R.; Miret, J. M.; Miro-Julia, J.; Rosselló, F.; Xambó, S. (2002), "The Kleiman graph" (PDF), Kleiman Fest, Osló
  2. ↑ Birth year from VIAF authority control record, accessed 2019-02-13.
  3. 1 2 Nagy, Amanda (September 10, 2015), "Top of her game", Oberlin College News
  4. 1 2 Past Editors of The American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2022-06-29
  5. ↑ "An Interview with Susan Jane Colley" (PDF), Girls' Angle Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3–7, April–May 2016
  6. ↑ Susan Jane Colley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ↑ "Susan Jane Colley". www2.oberlin.edu. 5 April 2021. Archived from the original on 25 March 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  8. ↑ Nagy, Amanda (7 November 2016). "Top of Her Game". Oberlin College and Conservatory. Archived from the original on 23 July 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  9. ↑ "Oberlin College:Arts & Sciences:Mathematics". Archived from the original on 8 September 2011.
  10. ↑ "Front Matter". The College Mathematics Journal. Mathematical Association of America. 42 (4): 253. September 2011. doi:10.4169/college.math.j.42.4.fm. JSTOR 10.4169/college.math.j.42.4.fm. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  11. ↑ "Front Matter". MAA Focus. Mathematical Association of America. 31 (1). February–March 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  12. ↑ Colley, Susan Jane (2012). Vector Calculus. Pearson. ISBN 978-0-321-78065-2.


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