{"663416":{"#nid":"663416","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A Mathematician Who Fled to Freedom but Still Stares Down Doubts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn paper, it might come as no surprise that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.math.uci.edu\/~szhitomi\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESvetlana Jitomirskaya\u003C\/a\u003E, born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1966, became a mathematician. Everyone in her family was one, and her mother\u0026nbsp;was Ukraine\u0026rsquo;s only female full professor of mathematics.\u0026nbsp;Jitomirskaya is now an award-winning mathematician, a distinguished professor at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/uci.edu\u0022\u003EUniversity of California,\u0026nbsp;Irvine\u003C\/a\u003E, and was recently named the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/elaine-hubbards-legacy\u0022\u003EElaine M.\u0026nbsp;Hubbard Chair\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Ein the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E. In this Q-and-A with Quanta Magazine,\u0026nbsp;Jitomirskaya talks\u0026nbsp;about her research, her experiences as a young Jewish woman in the former Soviet Union, and her hopes for math education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-11-22 21:29:19","changed_gmt":"2022-11-22 21:29:19","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/in-math-and-life-svetlana-jitomirskaya-stares-down-complexity-20221101\/","dateline":{"date":"2022-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"190571","name":"Svetlana Jitomirskaya"},{"id":"191686","name":"Elaine M. Hubbard Endowed Chair"},{"id":"2748","name":"mathematics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}