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Katrin Tent is a German mathematician specializing in group theory, the symmetries of groups, algebraic model theory, and Tits buildings. She is a professor of mathematics and mathematical logic at the University of Münster.

Education and career

Tent studied mathematics, linguistics, and computer science at the University of Kiel from 1982 to 1988, obtaining a PhD in linguistics in 1988. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Western University in Canada, she earned a diploma in mathematics in 1989 from the University of Kiel. She moved to the University of Notre Dame in the United States for doctoral study in mathematics, and completed her PhD there in 1994. Her dissertation, Classifying totally categorical groups (and others), was supervised by Steven A. Buechler.

After working as a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then at the University of Würzburg, where she completed a habilitation in 2001 with the habilitation thesis Model theory of groups and BN-pairs, and after a brief stint as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, she became a professor of mathematics at Bielefeld University in 2004. She took her present position as a professor of mathematics and mathematical logic at the University of Münster in 2008. Since 2020, she is President of the Deutsche Vereinigung für mathematische Logik und für Grundlagenforschung der exakten Wissenschaften.

Books

With Martin Ziegler, Tent is the co-author of a book on model theory, A Course in Model Theory (Lecture Notes in Logic 40, Cambridge University Press, 2012). She is also the editor of Tits Buildings and the Model Theory of Groups (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, Vol. 291, Cambridge University Press, 2002) and of Groups and Analysis: The Legacy of Hermann Weyl (London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes Series, Vol. 354, Cambridge University Press, 2008), and co-editor of Lectures in Model Theory (with Franziska Jahnke and Daniel Palacín, Münster Lectures in Mathematics, European Mathematical Society, 2018).

References

1. Year of birth from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-02-08
2. ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2024-12-04
3. Katrin Tent at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. Board of the Deutsche Vereinigung für mathematische Logik und für Grundlagenforschung der exakten Wissenschaften
5. Reviews of A Course in Model Theory:
   • Evans, David, Mathematical Reviews, MR 2908005{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Hart, Bradd (2015), The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 21 (3): 342–343, doi:10.1017/bsl.2015.26, MR 3495355, S2CID 125479753{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Zaldivar, Felipe (September 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America
6. Tent, Katrin (2002), "Tits Buildings and the Model Theory of Groups", London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 291 (3), doi:10.1017/CBO9780511549786
7. Review of Groups and Analysis : The Legacy of Hermann Weyl:
   • Berg, Michael (January 2009), "Review", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America

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• University of Notre Dame alumni
• Academics of the University of Birmingham
• Academic staff of Bielefeld University
• Academic staff of the University of Münster
• 21st-century German mathematicians
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