Karen Vogtmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Karen Vogtmann

mathematician

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1949

Place of Birth: Pittsburg, California, United States

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, topologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Karen Vogtmann (born July 13, 1949 in Pittsburg, California) is an American mathematician working primarily in the area of geometric group theory.
She is known for having introduced, in a 1986 paper with Marc Culler, an object now known as the Culler–Vogtmann Outer space.
The Outer space is a free group analog of the Teichmüller space of a Riemann surface and is particularly useful in the study of the group of outer automorphisms of the free group on n generators, Out(Fn).
Vogtmann is a Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University and The University of Warwick.