In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Salerno and the second or maternal family name is Domínguez.
Adriana Julia Salerno Domínguez (born 1979) is a Venezuelan-American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Bates College, and a program director at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests include arithmetic geometry and arithmetic dynamics in number theory. She is also a mathematics blogger, the co-founder of the American Mathematical Society blogs "Ph.D. plus epsilon" and "inclusion/exclusion".
Education and career
Salerno was born in Caracas in 1979, and earned a licenciatura in mathematics from Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) in 2001, advised by Pedro Berrizbeitia. She completed a Ph.D. in mathematics in 2009 at the University of Texas at Austin, with the dissertation Hypergeometric Functions in Arithmetic Geometry supervised by Fernando Rodríguez-Villegas.
She joined Bates College as an assistant professor in 2009. In 2016, she visited the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., as Dolciani Visiting Mathematician. After serving as department chair, she took a leave from Bates College beginning in 2021 to become a program officer for the National Science Foundation, where she is a program director for algebra and number theory. In 2021, she was also elected vice president of the MAA.
Recognition
Salerno is a 2023 recipient of one of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.
References
- ^ "Adriana J. Salerno, Professor of Mathematics", Mathematics faculty profiles, Bates College, retrieved 2024-03-27
- ^ Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award: Adriana Salerno (PDF), Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2024-03-27; "Mathematical Association of America recognizes Bates professor", Sun Journal, December 7, 2023; Bates professor wins national mathematics teaching award, Bates College, November 15, 2023, retrieved 2024-03-27
- Salerno, Adriana Julia, Hypergeometric Functions in Arithmetic Geometry (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis), University of Texas at Austin; see also vita, p. 102
- ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), Bates College, March 2013, retrieved 2024-03-27
- Adriana Salerno at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- MAA Hosts 2016 Visiting Mathematician Adriana Salerno, Mathematical Association of America, September 12, 2016, retrieved 2024-03-27
- "Division Director Update", Division of Mathematical Sciences Newsletter, National Science Foundation, September 2021, retrieved 2024-03-27
- "Adriana Salerno", Staff directory, National Science Foundation, retrieved 2024-03-27
- "Soto wins MAA president-elect position", NebraskaMATH, University of Nebraska, November 8, 2021, retrieved 2024-03-27
External links
- Home page
- Adriana Salerno, Calendar 2017, Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences
- 1979 births
- Living people
- People from Caracas
- Venezuelan mathematicians
- Venezuelan women scientists
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American women mathematicians
- Number theorists
- Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) alumni
- University of Texas at Austin alumni
- Bates College faculty
- United States National Science Foundation officials