BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251121T210654EST-4828Uukkf9@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251122T020654Z DESCRIPTION:Lauren Kiyomi Williams is an American mathematician known for h er work on cluster algebras\, tropical geometry\, algebraic combinatorics\ , amplituhedra\, and the positive Grassmannian\, and more recently Macdona ld polynomials. She is Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics at  Harvard University.\n\nShe received her PhD in 2005 at the Massachusetts I nstitute of Technology under the supervision of Stanley. Her dissertation was titled Combinatorial Aspects of Total Positivity.\n\nAwards:\n\n\n 2012 : she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Soc iety\n 2016: winner of the Association for Women in Mathematics and Microso ft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory\n\n\nhttp://www.crm.umontre al.ca/2022/CA-williams22/index_e.php\n\n \n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220926 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221004 SUMMARY:Lauren Williams Aisenstadt Chair Lecture Series URL:/mathstat/channels/event/lauren-williams-aisenstad t-chair-lecture-series-341765 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR