Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington, and Director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute
Tatiana Toro received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1992. Since 1996 she has been at the University of Washington where she became a Professor in 2002. She has held positions at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and UC Berkeley. From 1996-2000 she held a Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and from 1994-98 she held an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Dr. Toro's research areas include geometric measure theory and partial differential equations. She applies techniques from these two fields to study free boundary regularity problems with very rough boundary data. These problems arise naturally in physics and engineering, where the free boundary may appear as the interface between a fluid and the air, or water and ice. She has also worked in the problem of constructing good parameterization for sets satisfying some minimal geometric requirements (for example: snowballs).
