Susan Jane Colley

Susan Jane Colley
Born
Susan Morris

1959 (age 66–67)
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
OccupationMathematician
Scientific career
InstitutionsOberlin College

Susan Jane Colley (née Morris, born 1959)[1][2] is an American mathematician. She was a professor of mathematics at Oberlin College from 1983 to 2025 before taking emeritus status. She served as the named professorship of Andrew and Pauline Delaney Professor of Mathematics from 1999 to 2025.[3] She is a former editor-in-chief of the American Mathematical Monthly.[4]

Biography

Colley went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an undergraduate,[5] and earned her Ph.D. at MIT in 1983. Her dissertation, On the Enumerative Geometry of Stationary Multiple-points, was supervised by Steven Kleiman.[6]

Colley joined the faculty of Oberlin College in 1983 as an assistant professor. She was promoted to professor in 1995 and chaired the Department of Mathematics at Oberlin from 1994—1997 and again from 2011—2014. She was appointed the Andrew and Pauline Delaney Professor of Mathematics in 1999 and held that position for 26 years.[7]

Colley was on the board of editors of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) publication The College Mathematics Journal from 2010 –2018.[8] She served on the board of editors of the MAA publication Focus from 2011–2015.[9] She became editor of the American Mathematical Monthly beginning in 2017; she was the first woman to hold this position.[4]

Research

Colley's main research interests are algebraic geometry[10] and related areas, particularly enumerative geometry,[3] and intersection theory.[10]

Works

Colley authored textbooks intended for college undergraduates on the topics of vector calculus and linear algebra.

  • Colley, Susan (1997), Vector Calculus, Prentice Hall (1st edition 1997, 2nd edition 2002, 3rd edition 2006, 4th edition 2011; Spanish language edition in 2013 as Cálculo vectorial; later editions published by Pearson)

References

  1. ^ Alberich, R.; Miret, J. M.; Miro-Julia, J.; Rosselló, F.; Xambó, S. (2002), "The Kleiman graph" (PDF), Kleiman Fest, Osló
  2. ^ Birth year from VIAF authority control record, accessed 2019-02-13.
  3. ^ a b Nagy, Amanda (September 10, 2015), "Top of her game", Oberlin College News
  4. ^ a b Past Editors of The American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2022-06-29
  5. ^ "An Interview with Susan Jane Colley" (PDF), Girls' Angle Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3–7, April–May 2016
  6. ^ Susan Jane Colley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ^ "Oberlin College:Arts & Sciences:Mathematics", archived from the original on 2011-09-08
  8. ^ "Front Matter", The College Mathematics Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, Mathematical Association of America, p. 253, September 2011, doi:10.4169/college.math.j.42.4.fm, JSTOR 10.4169/college.math.j.42.4.fm, retrieved 2021-04-12
  9. ^ "Front Matter", MAA Focus, vol. 31, no. 1, Mathematical Association of America, February–March 2011, retrieved 2021-04-12
  10. ^ a b "Susan Jane Colley", www2.oberlin.edu, April 5, 2021, archived from the original on 2021-03-25, retrieved 2021-07-05
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