Ruth Lawrence

Learn about the life and work of Ruth Lawrence as described by a group of high school girls attending the camp Girls Talk Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By Jillian Byrnes, Monique Dacanay, Kaycee DeArmey, Alana Drumgold, Ariyana Smith, and Wisdom Talley. Check out the corresponding blog post about the Knot Theory problem set these campers solved at girlstalkmath.com/2018/07/02/knot-theory-2/ ****Factual corrections (thank you to Dr. Ruth Lawrence for providing these corrections)**** 1:12 Then when she was 19 she moved to America, to become a Junior Fellow at Harvard - Dr. Lawrence moved to America a few months after her doctorate in October 1989 when she was 18 for a postdoc at Harvard. A year later she became a Junior Fellow (a very prestigious 3 yr postdoc at Harvard). 6:15-6:27 In 1987 she fell in love with Ari Naimark, an Israeli mathematician and followed him to Israel she became an observant Jew and learned Hebrew ... - While an assistant professor at University of Michigan, Dr. Lawrence became an observant Jew in 1996. She was promoted to a tenured Associate Professor at Michigan in 1997 and was also awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. She chose to use the fellowship to do research for a year in Israel at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1997-98). There she fell in love with Ari Naimark, an Israeli mathematician and then moved permanently to Israel in 1999. Many thanks to Girls Rock NC’s Teen AXN League for the amazing intro/outro song!