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.