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Abigail Thompson was born on 1958 in United States, is an American mathematician. Discover Abigail Thompson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?
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Abigail A. Thompson (born 1958 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American mathematician.
She works as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Davis, where she specializes in knot theory and low-dimensional topology.
Thompson graduated from Wellesley College in 1979, and earned her Ph.D. in 1986 from Rutgers University under the joint supervision of Martin Scharlemann and Julius L. Shaneson.
After visiting positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the University of California Davis faculty in 1988.
Thompson had a postdoctoral fellowship with the National Science Foundation from 1988 to 1991 and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship from 1991 to 1993.
She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1990-1991, 2000-2001, and 2015-2016.
She has publicly attacked the Mathland-based curriculum in use in the mid-1990s when the oldest of her three children began studying mathematics in school, claiming that it provided an inadequate foundation in basic mathematical skills, left no opportunity for independent work, and was based on poorly written materials.
As an alternative, she founded a program at UC Davis to improve teacher knowledge of mathematics, and became the director of the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science, a month-long summer mathematics camp for high school students.
Thompson won the 2003 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics for her research on thin position and Heegard splittings.
In 2013, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
She became the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at UC Davis in 2017.
She is one of the current vice presidents of the American Mathematical Society; her term is February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2022.
Thompson extended David Gabai's concept of thin position from knots to 3-manifolds and Heegaard splittings.
Thompson has also been an activist for reform of primary and secondary school mathematics education.
The award is due to an op-Ed Thompson published in The Wall Street Journal on December 19, 2019, denouncing the use of mandatory diversity statements in faculty hiring practices in the University of California system.
In December of 2019 she published a similar opinion piece under the heading "A word from... Abigail Thompson" in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, of which she was one of the Vice Presidents at the time.
Both opinion pieces generated a lot of discussion within the mathematics community and the academy in general, with official responses from the Association for Women in Mathematics, and the UC Davis Chancellor and Vice Chancellor among others.
In February 2020, Abigail Thompson has been recognized by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) as a "Hero of Intellectual Freedom."
Thompson will deliver the keynote address at ACTA’s ATHENA Roundtable Conference on November 13, 2020.
