NSF Visiting Professorship for Women
For the third time in six years, an eminent woman mathematician
is visiting the Department of Mathematics for an entire academic
year. Professor Barbara MacCluer will spend 1994-95 at Purdue
as an awardee of a National Science Foundation Visiting
Professorship for Women (VPW). As the third visitor to the
Department under the VPW program, Professor MacCluer
follows Professors Judith Sally of Northwestern University and
Sylvia Wiegand of the University of Nebraska. By supplying
funds for salaries and other expenses, the VPW program
provides outstanding women scientists and engineers with
opportunities to serve as visiting professors at host institutions.
Professor MacCluer received a Ph.D. in mathematics from
Michigan State in 1983. Since 1987 she has been on the
mathematics faculty at the University of Richmond in Virginia.
During her year at Purdue, she plans to conduct research on
several problems which lie at the interface of operator theory and
function theory, and will continue her ongoing research
collaboration with Professor Carl Cowen. Their work includes a
soon to be completed jointly authored research
monograph/graduate text entitled Composition Operators on
Spaces of Analytic Functions. Professor MacCluer will teach a
one semester graduate level course based on this book in the
spring.
Participation in the VPW program increases the visibility of
women scientists as members of the research community and
provides them with opportunities to mentor women
undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to working on
her research program, Professor MacCluer will interact with
Purdue women mathematics faculty, graduate students, and
undergraduate mathematics majors in a variety of ways. She
also plans to become involved with WISE, an organization for
Women in Science and Engineering.
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