Ruth Haas | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Swarthmore College Cornell University |
Awards | M. Gweneth Humphreys Award (2015) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Smith College University of Hawaii at Manoa |
Thesis | Dimension and Bases for Certain Classes of Splines: A Combinatorial and Homological Approach (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Louis Billera |
Website | math |
Ruth Haas is an American mathematician and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Previously she was the Achilles Professor of Mathematics at Smith College.[1] She received the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) in 2015 for her mentorship of women in mathematics.[2][1] Haas was named an inaugural AWM Fellow in 2017.[3] In 2017 she was elected President of the AWM and on February 1, 2019 she assumed that position.[4]