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'''Chelsea Walton''' (born July 11, 1983){{r|cv}} is a mathematician whose research interests include [[noncommutative ring|noncommutative algebra]], [[noncommutative algebraic geometry]], [[symmetry in quantum mechanics]], [[Hopf algebra]]s, and [[quantum group]]s. She is an associate professor at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] and a [[Sloan Research Fellowship|Sloan Research Fellow]].{{r|sloan}}
'''Chelsea Walton''' is an American mathematician whose research interests include [[noncommutative ring|noncommutative algebra]], [[noncommutative algebraic geometry]], [[symmetry in quantum mechanics]], [[Hopf algebra]]s, and [[quantum group]]s. She is an associate professor at [[Rice University]] and a [[Sloan Research Fellowship|Sloan Research Fellow]].{{r|sloan}}


==Education and career==
==Education and career==
Walton is African-American,{{r|mgb}} originally from [[Detroit]],{{r|gizmodo}} and was educated in the [[Detroit Public Schools Community District|Detroit public schools]].{{r|whm}}
Walton is African-American,{{r|mgb}} originally from [[Detroit, Michigan]],{{r|gizmodo}} and was educated in the [[Detroit Public Schools Community District|Detroit public schools]].{{r|whm}}
As a child she made a [[letter frequency]] table from her children's dictionary,{{r|sloan}} and as a high school student, seeking a way to "do logic puzzles all day and get paid for this",{{r|mgb}} she was already planning a career as a mathematics professor.{{r|gizmodo}}
As a child she made a [[letter frequency]] table from her children's dictionary,{{r|sloan}} and as a high school student, seeking a way to "do logic puzzles all day and get paid for this",{{r|mgb}} she was already planning a career as a mathematics professor.{{r|gizmodo}}


She graduated from [[Michigan State University]] in 2005,{{r|uiuc}} and completed her PhD at the [[University of Michigan]] in 2011. Her dissertation, ''On Degenerations and Deformations of Sklyanin Algebras'',<ref>Walton, C. M. (2011). ''On degenerations and deformations of Sklyanin algebras'' (Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan).</ref> was jointly supervised by {{ill|Toby Stafford|de}} and [[Karen E. Smith]],{{r|mgp}} and based in part on her work as a visiting student at the [[University of Manchester]], where Stafford had moved.{{r|cv}}
She graduated from [[Michigan State University]] in 2005,{{r|uiuc}}
and completed her Ph.D. at the [[University of Michigan]] in 2011.
Her dissertation, ''On Degenerations and Deformations of Sklyanin Algebras'', was jointly supervised by {{ill|Toby Stafford|de}} and [[Karen E. Smith]],{{r|mgp}}
and based in part on her work as a visiting student at the [[University of Manchester]], where Stafford had moved.{{r|cv}}


Walton did postdoctoral research at the [[University of Washington]] and the [[Mathematical Sciences Research Institute]], and became a [[C. L. E. Moore instructor]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] from 2012 to 2015.{{r|cv}}
Walton did postdoctoral research at the [[University of Washington]] and the [[Mathematical Sciences Research Institute]], and became a [[C. L. E. Moore instructor]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] from 2012 to 2015.{{r|cv}} She came to [[Temple University]] as Selma Lee Bloch Brown Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 2015 {{r|sloan}}. She moved to the [[University of Illinois]] in 2018.{{r|uiuc|whm}} She joined the faculty at [[Rice University]] in 2020.{{r|ricepage}}
She came to [[Temple University]] as Selma Lee Bloch Brown Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 2015.{{r|sloan}} She moved to the University of Illinois in 2018.{{r|uiuc|whm}}


==Recognition==
==Recognition==
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Walton was named a Sloan Fellow in 2017, becoming the fourth African-American to win a [[Sloan Fellowship]] in mathematics.{{r|sloan}} Walton was also recognized by [[Mathematically Gifted & Black]] as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.{{r|mgb}} In 2018 she won the [[André Lichnerowicz Prize|André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson geometry]], the first woman to be awarded this prize.{{r|alp}} The award citation noted her research on [[Elliptic algebra|Sklyanin algebras]] in [[Poisson geometry]], on the actions of [[Hopf algebra]]s, and on the [[universal enveloping algebra]] of the [[Witt algebra]].{{r|alp2}} She was elected as a [[Fellow of the American Mathematical Society]], in the 2025 class of fellows.{{r|fams}}
Walton was named a Sloan Fellow in 2017, becoming the fourth African-American to win a Sloan Fellowship in mathematics.{{r|sloan}}
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In 2018 she won the André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson geometry, the first woman to be awarded this prize.{{r|alp}} The award citation noted her research on [[Elliptic algebra|Sklyanin algebras]] in [[Poisson geometry]], on the actions of [[Hopf algebra]]s, and on the [[universal enveloping algebra]] of the [[Witt algebra]].{{r|alp2}}


==References==
==References==
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<ref name=alp>{{citation|url=https://www.mathunion.org/cwm/news-and-events/2018-08-20/chelsea-walton-and-brent-prym-win-2018-andre-lichnerowicz-prize|title=Chelsea Walton and Brent Prym win 2018 André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson Geometry|date=August 20, 2018|publisher=[[International Mathematical Union]] Committee for Women in Mathematics}}</ref>
<ref name=alp>{{citation|url=https://www.mathunion.org/cwm/news-and-events/2018-08-20/chelsea-walton-and-brent-prym-win-2018-andre-lichnerowicz-prize|title=Chelsea Walton and Brent Prym win 2018 André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson Geometry|date=August 20, 2018|publisher=[[International Mathematical Union]] Committee for Women in Mathematics}}</ref>


<ref name=alp2>{{citation|url=http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/lichnerowicz2018_2.pdf|title=André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson geometry|year=2018|publisher=[[Fields Institute]]|accessdate=2018-10-19}}</ref>
<ref name=alp2>{{citation|url=http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/lichnerowicz2018_2.pdf|title=André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson geometry|year=2018|publisher=[[Fields Institute]]|access-date=2018-10-19}}</ref>


<ref name=cv>{{citation|url=https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~notlaw/CV5.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|accessdate=2018-10-19}}</ref>
<ref name=cv>{{citation|url=https://math.rice.edu/~notlaw/CV6.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|access-date=2020-07-01}}</ref>

<ref name=fams>{{citation|url=https://www.ams.org/fellows_by_year.cgi?year=2025|title=2025 Class of Fellows of the AMS|publisher=American Mathematical Society|access-date=2024-11-01}}</ref>


<ref name=gizmodo>{{citation|magazine=[[Gizmodo]]|title=These Black Female Mathematicians Should Be Stars in the Blockbusters of Tomorrow|first=Rae|last=Paoletta|date=March 8, 2017|url=https://gizmodo.com/these-black-female-mathematicians-should-be-stars-in-th-1792636094}}</ref>
<ref name=gizmodo>{{citation|magazine=[[Gizmodo]]|title=These Black Female Mathematicians Should Be Stars in the Blockbusters of Tomorrow|first=Rae|last=Paoletta|date=March 8, 2017|url=https://gizmodo.com/these-black-female-mathematicians-should-be-stars-in-th-1792636094}}</ref>


<ref name=mgb>{{citation|url=http://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/chelsea-walton/|title=Chelsea Walton|work=Mathematically Gifted and Black: Black History Month 2017 Honoree|accessdate=2018-10-18}}</ref>
<ref name=mgb>{{citation|url=http://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/chelsea-walton/|title=Chelsea Walton|work=Mathematically Gifted and Black: Black History Month 2017 Honoree|access-date=2018-10-18}}</ref>


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<ref name=sloan>{{citation|url=https://news.temple.edu/news/2017-03-07/chelsea-walton-2017-sloan-research-fellow|title=Temple mathematician Chelsea Walton named a 2017 Sloan Research Fellow|publisher=[[Temple University]]|magazine=Temple Now|date=March 7, 2017}}</ref>
<ref name=sloan>{{citation|url=https://news.temple.edu/news/2017-03-07/chelsea-walton-2017-sloan-research-fellow|title=Temple mathematician Chelsea Walton named a 2017 Sloan Research Fellow|publisher=[[Temple University]]|magazine=Temple Now|date=March 7, 2017}}</ref>


<ref name=uiuc>{{citation|url=https://www.las.illinois.edu/news/article/?id=27449&key=/news/2018/newfaculty18/|title=New faculty join the College of LAS|publisher=University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences|date=September 13, 2018|first1=Jessica|last1=Bursztynsky|first2=Dave|last2=Evensen|accessdate=2018-10-19}}</ref>
<ref name=uiuc>{{citation|url=https://www.las.illinois.edu/news/article/?id=27449&key=/news/2018/newfaculty18/|title=New faculty join the College of LAS|publisher=University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences|date=September 13, 2018|first1=Jessica|last1=Bursztynsky|first2=Dave|last2=Evensen|access-date=2018-10-19}}</ref>

<ref name=ricepage>{{citation|url=https://math.rice.edu/~notlaw/|title=Chelsea Walton|access-date=2020-07-06}}</ref>


<ref name=whm>{{citation|department=Women's History Month|first1=Margaret A.|last1=Readdy|first2=Christine|last2=Taylor|url=http://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201803/rnoti-p248b.pdf|title=Chelsea Walton|pages=296–297|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=65|issue=3|date=March 2018}}</ref>
<ref name=whm>{{citation|department=Women's History Month|first1=Margaret A.|last1=Readdy|first2=Christine|last2=Taylor|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201803/rnoti-p248b.pdf|title=Chelsea Walton|pages=296–297|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=65|issue=3|date=March 2018}}</ref>


}}
}}


==Further reading==
==Further reading==
*{{citation|url=http://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201802/rnoti-p164.pdf|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=65|issue=2|date=February 2018|pages=164–166|title=Chelsea Walton Interview|first=Alexander|last=Diaz-Lopez}}
*{{citation|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201802/rnoti-p164.pdf|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=65|issue=2|date=February 2018|pages=164–166|title=Chelsea Walton Interview|first=Alexander|last=Diaz-Lopez|doi=10.1090/noti1631|doi-access=free}}


==External links==
==External links==
*[https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~notlaw/ Home page]
*[https://math.rice.edu/~notlaw/ Home page]


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Latest revision as of 21:48, 1 November 2024

Chelsea Walton
Walton at Oberwolfach in 2014
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsRice University
Thesis On Degenerations and Deformations of Sklyanin Algebras  (2011)
Doctoral advisors
Websitemath.rice.edu/~notlaw

Chelsea Walton is an American mathematician whose research interests include noncommutative algebra, noncommutative algebraic geometry, symmetry in quantum mechanics, Hopf algebras, and quantum groups. She is an associate professor at Rice University and a Sloan Research Fellow.[1]

Education and career

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Walton is African-American,[2] originally from Detroit, Michigan,[3] and was educated in the Detroit public schools.[4] As a child she made a letter frequency table from her children's dictionary,[1] and as a high school student, seeking a way to "do logic puzzles all day and get paid for this",[2] she was already planning a career as a mathematics professor.[3]

She graduated from Michigan State University in 2005,[5] and completed her PhD at the University of Michigan in 2011. Her dissertation, On Degenerations and Deformations of Sklyanin Algebras,[6] was jointly supervised by Toby Stafford [de] and Karen E. Smith,[7] and based in part on her work as a visiting student at the University of Manchester, where Stafford had moved.[8]

Walton did postdoctoral research at the University of Washington and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and became a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2012 to 2015.[8] She came to Temple University as Selma Lee Bloch Brown Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 2015 [1]. She moved to the University of Illinois in 2018.[5][4] She joined the faculty at Rice University in 2020.[9]

Recognition

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Walton was named a Sloan Fellow in 2017, becoming the fourth African-American to win a Sloan Fellowship in mathematics.[1] Walton was also recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.[2] In 2018 she won the André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson geometry, the first woman to be awarded this prize.[10] The award citation noted her research on Sklyanin algebras in Poisson geometry, on the actions of Hopf algebras, and on the universal enveloping algebra of the Witt algebra.[11] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Temple mathematician Chelsea Walton named a 2017 Sloan Research Fellow", Temple Now, Temple University, March 7, 2017
  2. ^ a b c "Chelsea Walton", Mathematically Gifted and Black: Black History Month 2017 Honoree, retrieved 2018-10-18
  3. ^ a b Paoletta, Rae (March 8, 2017), "These Black Female Mathematicians Should Be Stars in the Blockbusters of Tomorrow", Gizmodo
  4. ^ a b Readdy, Margaret A.; Taylor, Christine (March 2018), "Chelsea Walton" (PDF), Women's History Month, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 65 (3): 296–297
  5. ^ a b Bursztynsky, Jessica; Evensen, Dave (September 13, 2018), New faculty join the College of LAS, University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2018-10-19
  6. ^ Walton, C. M. (2011). On degenerations and deformations of Sklyanin algebras (Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan).
  7. ^ Chelsea Walton at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-07-01
  9. ^ Chelsea Walton, retrieved 2020-07-06
  10. ^ Chelsea Walton and Brent Prym win 2018 André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson Geometry, International Mathematical Union Committee for Women in Mathematics, August 20, 2018
  11. ^ André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson geometry (PDF), Fields Institute, 2018, retrieved 2018-10-19
  12. ^ 2025 Class of Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2024-11-01

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