Victoria Powers

Victoria Ann Powers is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and known for her work on positive polynomials and on the mathematics of electoral systems.[1] She is a professor in the department of mathematics at Emory University.

Education and career

Powers graduated from the University of Chicago in 1980, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She completed her Ph.D. in 1985 at Cornell University.[2] Her dissertation, Finite Constructable [sic] Spaces of Signatures, was supervised by Alex F. T. W. Rosenberg.[3]

After completing her doctorate, she joined the faculty at the University of Hawaii, but moved to Emory University only two years later, in 1987. She was on leave from Emory as a Humboldt Fellow and Alexander von Humboldt research professor at the University of Regensburg in 1991–1992, as a visiting professor at the Complutense University of Madrid in 2002–2003, and as a program officer at the National Science Foundation in 2013–2015.[2]

Personal

Powers is married to Colm Mulcahy, an Irish mathematician, magician, and columnist with the same doctoral advisor.[4]

gollark: > Maybe one day we’ll have an OS without forced backdoors for the NSA...?
gollark: It's not very lasseiz-faire to have local government-enforced monopolies.
gollark: Or A&A, or something like that.
gollark: AA ISP here, except their prices are kind of bad.
gollark: There's also fairly consistent mobile network coverage on a bunch of networks, but it is *also* somewhat slow and has data caps.

References
  1. Rogers, Adam (June 6, 2018), "Elections Don't Work at All. You Can Blame the Math", Wired
  2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), January 2017, retrieved 2019-08-31
  3. Victoria Powers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. See the dedication to Mulcahy, Colm (February 14, 2013), "In My Heart of Hearts: Valentine's Day Special", Huffington Post
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