Cheri Shakiban Joins IMA as Associate Director
In September 2006 Professor Cheri
Shakiban joined the Institute
for
Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota
as
associate director for a two-year term. Dr.
Shakiban succeeds
Debra
Lewis, who is completing a two-year term of service at the IMA
and
returning to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where
she is
professor of mathematics.
Cheri Shakiban is a professor of mathematics at the University
of St.
Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she served as department
chair
from 1996 through 2004. Her recent research is mostly in the
area of
computer vision, in which she studies the detection of
symmetries,
visual tracking, and the reconstruction of occlusions in space
curves,
with applications to the description of supercoiled DNA
molecules. At
St. Thomas she has been very active with the support and
mentoring of
undergraduate research.
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