658059 external_news 1652130587 1652130587 Svetlana Jitomirskaya, a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine who in Fall 2022 will be the inaugural Hubbard Chair Professor in the School of Mathematics, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s most respected scientific organizations. Jitomirskaya joins Mark Hay, Regents Professor and Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, as a Georgia Tech researcher elected to the NAS during the current cohort. Jitomirskaya is the recipient of the 2020 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and the 2005 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize from the American Mathematical Society. After her retirement from a 28-year career at Kennesaw State University, Elaine M. Hubbard, Ph.D. MATH 1972, established the Elaine M. Hubbard Endowed Chair in the School of Mathematics, the School’s first endowed faculty chair. This fund serves to support robust, leading-edge mathematics education and research at Georgia Tech.

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