Ruth Haas

Ruth Haas
Ruth Haas at AWM Research Symposium, 2019
Alma materSwarthmore College (BA)
Cornell University (MS, PhD)
AwardsM. Gweneth Humphreys Award (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsSmith College
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Thesis Dimension and Bases for Certain Classes of Splines: A Combinatorial and Homological Approach  (1987)
Doctoral advisorLouis Billera
Websitemath.hawaii.edu/wordpress/people/rhaas/

Ruth Haas is an American mathematician and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Previously she was the Achilles Professor of Mathematics at Smith College. She received the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) in 2015 for her mentorship of women in mathematics. Haas was named an inaugural AWM Fellow in 2017. In 2017 she was elected President of the AWM and on February 1, 2019 she assumed that position.

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