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Christina Sormani is a Professor of Mathematics at Lehman College and the CUNY Graduate Center, part of the City University of New York system. She earned her doctorate from the Courant Institute in 1996 and worked as a postdoc at Johns Hopkins and Harvard before joining Lehman College in Spring 2000. She is also a frequent visitor at Stony Brook, working with doctoral students and postdocs conducting mathematics research.
Professor Sormani is an American Mathematical Society Fellow (2015) and a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (2024). Her research is in Geometric Analysis, specializing in Riemannian Geometry, Metric Spaces, and Geometric Measure Theory. She is particularly known for her work on the Intrinsic Flat Distance, which she developed with Stefan Wenger, providing a powerful framework for studying convergence of Riemannian manifolds with applications to General Relativity.
Her research program has been consistently funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF DMS) and PSC CUNY. She has held prestigious visiting positions including at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in 2013, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), and Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) during her 2018-2019 fellowship leave. Her work has focused on stability problems for the Positive Mass Theorem, scalar curvature, and convergence theory.
- American Mathematical Society Fellow (2015) for 'contributions to geometry, including the study of Ricci curvature, and for mentoring activities, especially for young mathematicians from underrepresented groups'
- Association for Women in Mathematics Fellow (2024) for 'utilizing every opportunity to open pathways to mathematics for more women and students by creating and maintaining online access to advice, mathematical resources, and information about women mathematicians; for organizing the 'Inspiring Talks by Mathematicians' lecture series featuring under-represented speakers, and for dedicated and active contributions to the Association for Women in Mathematics'
Professor Sormani has been deeply committed to mentoring and outreach throughout her career, particularly for women and underrepresented groups in mathematics. She organizes the 'Inspiring Talks by Mathematicians' lecture series and has created extensive online resources to support young mathematicians. Her research group includes numerous doctoral students and postdocs, and she has been instrumental in developing workshops and programs that bridge geometric analysis with general relativity.
