Lynne H. Walling

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Lynne H. Walling
Died(2021-05-28)May 28, 2021
Alma materDartmouth College
Known forNumber theory
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
ThesisTheta Series Attached to Lattices of Arbitrary Rank (1987)
Doctoral advisorThomas Richard Shemanske

Lynne H. Walling was Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Bristol.[1] She was known for her research in number theory.[2] She died on 28 May 2021.[3]

Career

Walling received her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 1987 under Thomas Richard Shemanske.[4] Walling worked at University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Science Foundation before joining the University of Bristol in 2007, where she became Head of Pure Maths.[2]

Awards and honors

In 2012, Walling became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Selected publications

  • Hafner, James Lee; Walling, Lynne H. Explicit action of Hecke operators on Siegel modular forms. J. Number Theory 93 (2002), no. 1, 34–57.
  • Walling, Lynne H. Hecke operators on theta series attached to lattices of arbitrary rank. Acta Arith. 54 (1990), no. 3, 213–240.
  • Merrill, Kathy D.; Walling, Lynne H. Sums of squares over function fields. Duke Math. J. 71 (1993), no. 3, 665–684.

References

  1. ^ "Lynne Walling's Home Page". University of Bristol. Retrieved Mar 11, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Lynne Walling". University of Bristol. Retrieved Mar 10, 2015.
  3. ^ "London Mathematical Society Newsletter" (PDF).
  4. ^ Lynne H. Walling at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society