Katrina Barron
Katrina Deane Barron is an American mathematician and mathematical physicist whose research concerns vertex operator algebras. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Notre Dame.
Education and career
Barron has a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago: a 1987 B.S. in physics. She completed her Ph.D. at Rutgers University in 1996, with the dissertation The Supergeometric Interpretation of Vertex Operator Superalgebras, jointly supervised by James Lepowsky and Yi-Zhi Huang.Before becoming an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Notre Dame in 2001, she was a postdoctoral researcher with Geoffrey Mason at the University of California, Santa Cruz, supported by a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship.