- Krystyna Kuperberg
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name = Krystyna M. Kuperberg
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caption = Prof. Krystyna Kuperberg giving a lecture during "Spring Topology Conference 2004",Birmingham (Alabama)
birth_date = Birth date and age|1944|7|17
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nationality = USA
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field =Mathematician
work_institution =Auburn University
alma_mater =University of Warsaw
doctoral_advisor =Karol Borsuk andWilliam Jaco
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known_for =topology ,dynamical systems
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footnotes =Krystyna M. Kuperberg (born Krystyna M. Trybulec, 17 July 1944 in
Tarnów ,Poland ) is a Polish-Americanmathematician who currently works atAuburn University .Her parents, Jan W. and Barbara H. Trybulec, were
pharmacist s and owned a pharmacy inTarnów . Her older brother isAndrzej Trybulec . Her husbandWłodzimierz Kuperberg and her sonGreg Kuperberg are also mathematicians, while her daughter Anna Kuperberg is a photographer.After attending high school in
Gdańsk , she entered theUniversity of Warsaw in 1962, where she studied mathematics. Her first mathematics course was taught byAndrzej Mostowski ; later she attendedtopology lectures ofKarol Borsuk and became fascinated by topology.After obtaining her undergraduate degree, Kuperberg began graduate studies at Warsaw under Borsuk. For many years she worked primarily in topology, with some interest in
Euclidean geometry . She left Poland in 1969 with her family to live inSweden , then moved to the United States in 1972.In 1987 she solved a problem of Knaster concerning bi-homogeneity of continua. In the 1980s she became interested in fixed points and topological aspects of
dynamical system s. In 1993, she constructed a smooth counterexample to theSeifert conjecture . She has since continued to work in dynamical systems.In 1995 Kuperberg received the
Alfred Jurzykowski Award from theKościuszko Foundation . Her major lectures include an AMS Plenary Lecture in March 1995, an MAA Plenary Lecture in January 1996, and an ICM invited talk in 1998.elected publications
*K. Kuperberg, "A smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture", Ann. of Math. (2) 140 (1994), no. 3, 723--732.
*G. Kuperberg and K. Kuperberg, " [http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.DS/9802040 Generalized counterexamples to the Seifert conjecture] ", Ann. of Math. (2) 143 (1996), no. 3, 547--576.External links
* [http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/kuper.htm "Krysyna Kuperberg", Biographies of Women Mathematicians] ,
Agnes Scott College
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