{"id":615,"date":"2025-02-04T20:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/newmath2025\/?p=615"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:50:09","slug":"katherine-booth-awarded-nsf-postdoctoral-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/2025\/02\/04\/katherine-booth-awarded-nsf-postdoctoral-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Booth awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Katherine Booth was awarded a Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation in February 2025.\u00a0This is a highly prestigious award, given to about 40 mathematicians around the country each year.\u00a0 \u00a0Katherine is a non-degree-seeking graduate student at Vanderbilt, and will receive her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in Spring 2025.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Katherine&#8217;s research is on the topology of surfaces. \u00a0In her thesis she constructs continuous maps of the plane with new and mysterious properties: they are not smooth but they preserve all of the smooth curves.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13945 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/245\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-04-at-11.11.43-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"264\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Katherine&#8217;s NSF sponsor is our own Prof. Spencer Dowdall.\u00a0 Katherine will use part of the award at the University of Chicago, where she will be a Dickson Instructor starting in Fall 2026.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Booth was awarded a Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation in February 2025.\u00a0This is a highly prestigious award, given to about 40 mathematicians around the country each year.\u00a0 \u00a0Katherine is a non-degree-seeking graduate student at Vanderbilt, and will receive her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in Spring 2025. Katherine&#8217;s research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2025\/02\/24135004\/katherine-booth.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}