Lynne H. Walling
Lynne Heather Walling was Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Bristol.[1][2] She was known for her research in number theory. She died on 28 May 2021.[3]
Lynne Heather Walling | |
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| Died | May 28, 2021 |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
| Known for | Number theory |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
| Thesis | Theta Series Attached to Lattices of Arbitrary Rank (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Richard Shemanske |
| Website | people |
Career
Walling received her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 1987 under Thomas Richard Shemanske.[4]
She then taught at St. Olaf College, Minnesota. She lived in an old farmhouse, which had no indoor plumbing. She built a hand-operated pump, enabling her to install a bathtub in the kitchen, beside a wood-burning stove.[2]
She became a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1990. In 1995 she received tenure, and in 2000 became a full Professor. She came to Bristol as a Reader in Mathematics in 2007.[2] From 2011 to 2015 she was Head of Pure Mathematics, and from 2018 was Director of the Institute of Pure Mathematics.[2]
Awards and honors
In 2012, Walling became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
Selected publications
- Hafner, James Lee; Walling, Lynne H. Explicit action of Hecke operators on Siegel modular forms. J. Number Theory 93 (2002), no. 1, 34–57.
- Walling, Lynne H. Hecke operators on theta series attached to lattices of arbitrary rank. Acta Arith. 54 (1990), no. 3, 213–240.
- Merrill, Kathy D.; Walling, Lynne H. Sums of squares over function fields. Duke Math. J. 71 (1993), no. 3, 665–684.
References
- "Lynne Walling's Home Page". University of Bristol. Retrieved Mar 11, 2015.
- Rudnev, Misha (June 15, 2021). "Lynne Heather Walling, 1958 - 2021".
- "London Mathematical Society Newsletter" (PDF).
- Lynne H. Walling at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society