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Dr. Katherine C. Heller is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at North Central College, where she has been a faculty member since 2010. She is a dedicated educator, having received the Clarence F. Dissinger Award for distinguished teaching and mentoring in 2014, and serves as a faculty mentor for the baseball program and advisor to the Math Club and Pi Mu Epsilon.
Her educational background includes a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of South Carolina (2004), followed by an M.S. (2006) and Ph.D. (2010) in Mathematics from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Heller's research focuses on Functional Analysis and Operator Theory, with particular interest in composition operators on various function spaces such as Hardy spaces, Bergman spaces, and Dirichlet spaces. Her work explores properties like isometries, compactness, and adjoints of these operators, contributing to the theoretical foundations of complex analysis and operator algebras.
Her recent publications, spanning from 2012 to 2015, demonstrate a consistent research trajectory in the analysis of linear fractional composition operators and their properties in different Banach spaces of analytic functions. These works often involve collaborations and address questions of operator norms, compact differences, and spectral characteristics.
Among her accolades are the Clarence F. Dissinger Award (2014) for teaching and mentoring, and the Project NExT Fellowship (2010-2011) which supports new mathematics faculty in their teaching and professional development.
Dr. Heller is actively involved in academic service and outreach. She has served as a faculty mentor for the baseball team since 2018, co-directed the North Central Math Circle for high school students (2013-2015), and participated in multiple Girls and Math Summer Programs to encourage young women in mathematics. She also advises the Math Club and the math honorary society Pi Mu Epsilon.
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