Leslie Hogbenis an American mathematician specializing ingraph theoryandlinear algebra,and known for her mentorship of graduate students in mathematics.[1]She is a professor emerita of mathematics atIowa State University,where she held the Dio Lewis Holl Chair in Applied Mathematics 2012-2020; she was also professor (by courtesy) of electrical and computer engineering at Iowa State, associate dean for graduate studies and faculty development of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State (2019-2024), and associate director for diversity at theAmerican Institute of Mathematics.[2]

Education and career

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Hogben graduatedsumma cum laudein 1974 fromSwarthmore College,and completed her Ph.D. in 1978 atYale University.[2]Her dissertation,Radical Classes of Jordan Algebras,concernedring theoryand was supervised byNathan Jacobson.[3]

She joinedIowa State Universityas a tenure-track instructor in 1978. There, she was tenured in 1983, promoted to full professor in 2006, and given the Dio Lewis Holl Chair in 2012, and retired in 2024. She added her courtesy appointment in electrical and computer engineering in 2013.[2]She was named associate dean in 2019.[1]

Hogben became associate director for diversity at theAmerican Institute of Mathematicsin 2007.[2]

Books

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Hogben is the editor of theHandbook of Linear Algebra(CRC Press, 2007; 2nd ed., 2014)[4]and edited several other books. She is the author (with Jephian Lin and Bryan Shader) ofInverse Problems and Zero Forcing for Graphs(AMS, 2022) and the author of the textbookElementary Linear Algebra(West Publishing, 1987).

Recognition

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TheAssociation for Women in Mathematicshas included her in the 2020 class of AWM Fellows for "being an endless champion for women in mathematics for nearly 40 years; for her outstanding record of involvement in programs to promote equal treatment and equal opportunities for women and minorities in mathematics".[5]In 2020, she was elected Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science,in the Section on Mathematics.[6]She was elected as a Fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Societyin the 2024 class of fellows.[7]

Personal life

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Hogben is the daughter of C. A. M. Hogben,[8]a physiologist atGeorge Washington Universityand later theUniversity of Iowa.[9]She is the granddaughter of British zoologist and medical statisticianLancelot Hogbenand of his wife, demographerEnid Charles.She married mathematician Mark Hunacek,[8]who became a teaching professor at Iowa State after many years as an assistant attorney general for the State of Iowa.[10]

References

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  1. ^ab"The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences names Leslie Hogben as associate dean for graduate studies and faculty development",LAS News,Iowa State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, February 1, 2019
  2. ^abcdCurriculum vitae(PDF),retrieved2019-09-03
  3. ^Leslie Hogbenat theMathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^Ricardo, Henry (June 2007),"Review ofHandbook of Linear Algebra",MAA Reviews
  5. ^2020 Class of AWM Fellows,Association for Women in Mathematics,retrieved2019-11-08
  6. ^"Mathematics People - AAAS Fellows Elected"(PDF).Notices of the American Mathematical Society.68:437.
  7. ^"2024 Class of Fellows of the AMS".American Mathematical Society.Retrieved2023-11-08.
  8. ^ab"Leslie Hogben Wed To Mark Hunacek",The New York Times,May 27, 1978
  9. ^C. A. M. Hogben (1961–1973),University of Iowa Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics,retrieved2019-09-03
  10. ^Mark Hunacek,Iowa State University Department of Mathematics,retrieved2019-09-03
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