Victoria Powers

Short description: American mathematician

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.

She is the author of the book Certificates of Positivity for Real Polynomials—Theory, Practice, and Applications (Springer, 2021).[2]

## Contents

* 1 Education and career
* 2 Personal
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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.[3] Her dissertation, Finite Constructable Spaces of Signatures, was supervised by Alex F. T. W. Rosenberg.[4]

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.[3] From 2012-2014, Powers served as a Council Member at Large for the American Mathematical Society.[5]

## Personal

Powers is married to Colm Mulcahy, an Irish mathematician who had the same doctoral advisor.[6]

## References

1. ↑ Rogers, Adam (June 6, 2018), "Elections Don't Work at All. You Can Blame the Math", Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/elections-dont-work-at-all-you-can-blame-the-math/
2. ↑ Powers, Victoria (2021)  Certificates of Positivity for Real Polynomials—Theory, Practice, and Applications Springer, ISBN:978-3-030-85546-8
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Curriculum vitae, January 2017, http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~vicki/PowersCV.pdf, retrieved 2019-08-31
4. ↑ Victoria Powers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. ↑ "AMS Committees" (in en). http://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/mal-past.html.
6. ↑ See the dedication to Mulcahy, Colm (February 14, 2013), "In My Heart of Hearts: Valentine's Day Special", Huffington Post, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/my-heart-of-hearts_b_2641875

## External links

* Victoria Powers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
* Home page

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