Chehrzad Shakiban
Chehrzad Shakiban | |
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| Born | 1951 (age 74–75) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Brown University |
| Spouse | Peter J. Olver |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) |
| Thesis | The Euler Operation in the Formal Calculus of Variation (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wendell Fleming |
| Website | https://universityofsaintthomas.github.io/cshakiban/ |
Chehrzad "Cheri" Shakiban (born 1951) is an Iranian and American mathematician. She is the first Iranian woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics from Brown University and the first Iranian woman to become a professor of mathematics anywhere. She is retired after working for 37 years as a professor of mathematics at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota); she is also a former director of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. She is the author of a textbook on applied linear algebra, and has published highly cited work on the use of differential invariants in image recognition.