Caroline Series

Caroline Series

Portrait photograph of subject

Caroline Series, 1976
Born Caroline Mary Series
1951 (age 6465)
Oxford
Residence England
Citizenship British
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater University of Oxford
Thesis Ergodic action of product groups (1976)
Doctoral advisor George Mackey
Doctoral students Ralf J. Spatzier
Notable awards
Website
homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~masbb/

Caroline Mary Series FRS (born 1951) is an English mathematician known for her work in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems.

Early life and education

She attended Oxford High School for Girls and from 1969 studied at Somerville College, Oxford, obtaining a B.A. in Mathematics in 1972, also being awarded the university Mathematical Prize. She was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship and studied at Harvard University from 1972, obtaining her doctorate in 1976 supervised by George Mackey (Ergodic action of product groups).[1]

Career and research

In 1976–77 she was a lecturer at Berkeley, and in 1977–78 she was a research fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. From 1978 she was at the University of Warwick, first as a lecturer, then (from 1987) as a reader, and (from 1992) as a professor. From 1999 to 2004 she was EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Senior Research Fellow at Warwick.

In the 1970s, Series found illustrations of Rufus Bowen's Theory of Dynamic Systems in the geometry of continued fractions and two-dimensional hyperbolic geometry (effect of Fuchs Groups). After that, she investigated similar (including fractal) geometric patterns in three-dimensional hyperbolic spaces (with Klein groups as symmetry groups). The computer images led to a book project with David Mumford and David Wright, which took over ten years. Other coauthors are Linda Keen and Joan Birman.

Publications

Awards and honours

In 1987 she was awarded the Junior Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society. In 1992 she held the Rouse Ball Lecture in Cambridge, and in 1986 she was the invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley (Symbolic Dynamics for Geodesic Flows). From 1990 to 2001 she was the editor of the Student Texts of the London Mathematical Society. In 1986 she was a founding member of European Women in Mathematics (EWM).[2] In 2009 she was the Emmy Noether visiting professor at the University of Göttingen. She is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Personal life

Series is the daughter of the physicist George William Series.

References


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