Pamela Gorkin is Professor of Mathematics at Bucknell University in Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania.. She received her Ph.D. at Michigan State University, where she
worked under the direction of Sheldon Axler. Her research is focused in functional analysis and operator theory, with primary interest in questions involving interpolation, universality, and composition operators. She has
written one book, Reading,
Writing, and Proving: A Closer Look at Mathematics,
together with Ulrich Daepp.
Professor Gorkin spent her three sabbaticals at the University
of Bern in Bern, Switzerland. She has also been a frequent
visitor at the Université de Metz in
France as well as the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
She has also had the pleasure of being able to participate
in the RIP program at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut in Oberwolfach,
Germany.
