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Andrea Bertozzi
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| Born | 1965 (age 59–60) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Relatives | Carolyn Bertozzi (sister) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles Duke University Argonne National Laboratory University of Chicago |
| Thesis | Existence, uniqueness, and a characterization of solutions to the contour dynamics equation (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Majda |
Andrea Louise Bertozzi (born 1965) is an American mathematician. She studies special kinds of math called non-linear partial differential equations and applied mathematics. This means she uses math to solve real-world problems.
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Becoming a Mathematician
Andrea Bertozzi studied at Princeton University. She earned her first two degrees there and then her PhD in 1991. Her PhD paper was about how to understand certain math problems.
Before joining UCLA in 2003, Professor Bertozzi taught at the University of Chicago. She was also a math and physics professor at Duke University. For one year, she was a special researcher at Argonne National Laboratory.
Since 2003, she has been a math professor at UCLA. In 2018, she also became a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She has been the leader of the Applied Mathematics program at UCLA since 2005. She is also part of the California NanoSystems Institute, which studies very tiny materials.
What Andrea Bertozzi Studies
Andrea Bertozzi has helped in many areas of applied mathematics. She studies how groups of things move together, like a flock of birds. She also looks at how particles move in liquids.
Her work includes analyzing data and images, even at very small sizes. She has also used math to understand patterns in crime. Her early work on how liquids flow led to new ways to process images. For example, she helped create methods to fill in missing parts of pictures. She also worked on models for how groups swarm and how to group data on graphs.
In 2000, Professor Bertozzi co-wrote a book called Vorticity and Incompressible Flow. This book is one of her most important works.
She has published over 200 papers on many topics. These include how liquids move, how to process images, and even social sciences. She has worked with more than 100 other scientists from different fields. These fields include computer science, chemistry, physics, engineering, medicine, and criminology.
New Inventions and Ideas
Between 2010 and 2020, Andrea Bertozzi received several patents for her research. A patent means she invented something new and has the right to it. Her inventions include ways to fix images and combine different types of data. More recently, she has worked on finding out how liquids are connected underground using tiny probes.
Professor Bertozzi has created many new mathematical theories. While at the University of Chicago, she developed math for "thin film equations." These equations describe how very thin layers of liquid behave.
She also worked with Jeffrey Brantingham and others to use math to study patterns of crime in cities. This research was featured on the cover of a science magazine in 2010. She even gave a talk about the math of crime at a big science meeting.
Since 2017, she has been developing new math for tiny fluid technologies. This work helps understand how liquids move in very small spaces. In 2020, she used these ideas to explain a new type of liquid movement seen in the "tears of wine" problem. This is when wine forms drops on the side of a glass.
During the 2020 pandemic, Professor Bertozzi also published academic work about COVID-19. One important article was about how hard it is to predict how a disease spreads. She also gave a talk on how to model epidemics. She even studied how reports of domestic violence increased during stay-at-home rules.
Family Life
Andrea Bertozzi is the older sister of Carolyn Bertozzi. Carolyn is a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 2022. Their father, William Bertozzi, was a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Awards and Honors
Andrea Bertozzi has received many awards for her work:
- In 1995, she received a research fellowship from the Sloan Foundation.
- In 1996, she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This award comes from the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
- In 2009, she was honored with the Association for Women in Mathematics-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture.
- In 2010, she became a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
- Also in 2010, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- In 2012, she became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
- In 2013, she was named the Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity at UCLA.
- In 2016, she became a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
- In 2017, she became a Simons Investigator.
- In 2018, she was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. This is a very high honor for scientists.
- In 2019, she was awarded SIAM's Kleinman Prize.
Cancelled Lecture
In June 2020, Andrea Bertozzi was asked to give a special lecture called the Noether Lecture at a big math meeting. However, some people were concerned about her work in an area called predictive policing. This is where math is used to try and predict where crimes might happen.
The announcement came during the George Floyd protests against police actions. Because of this, some people on social media felt the timing was not good. Andrea Bertozzi and the groups organizing the event decided together to cancel the lecture.
