Name Jane Hawkins | ||
Jane Margaret Hawkins is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research concerns dynamical systems and complex dynamics, including cellular automata and Julia sets. More recent research has included work on cellular automata models for the spread of HIV, Hepatitis C and Ebola.
She earned a B.A. in mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross, a Jesuit college in Worcester, Massachusetts, and received a Marshall Scholarship for graduate studies in the U.K. She then moved to England for graduate studies, receiving her Ph.D. from University of Warwick in 1981 under the supervision of Klaus Schmidt. She taught at the State University of New York, Stony Brook from 1980 to 1987, before moving to UNC.
In 2004, Hawkins presented testimony to a subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations in support of grants to mathematical research., and again in 2012. In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. She has been Treasurer of the American Mathematical Society and chair of the AMS Investment Committee since 2011.
She is married to mathematician Michael E. Taylor.