Shelly Lynn Harvey is a professor of Mathematics at Rice University. Her research interests include knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory.^[1]

Early life

Harvey grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, California and graduated California Polytechnic State University in 1997.^[1][2] She received her Ph.D. from Rice University in 2002 under the supervision of Tim Cochran.^[1][2][3] After postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she returned to Rice University in 2005 as the first female tenure-track mathematician there.^[1][2]

Recognitions

Harvey was a Sloan Fellow in 2006. In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.^[4]

Selected publications

• Cochran, Tim D.; Harvey, Shelly (2008), "Homology and derived series of groups. II. Dwyer's theorem", Geometry & Topology, 12 (1): 199–232, arXiv:math/0609484, doi:10.2140/gt.2008.12.199, MR 2377249, S2CID 10589479.
• Cochran, Tim D.; Harvey, Shelly; Leidy, Constance (2009), "Knot concordance and higher-order Blanchfield duality", Geometry & Topology, 13 (3): 1419–1482, arXiv:0710.3082, doi:10.2140/gt.2009.13.1419, MR 2496049, S2CID 8072597.
• Cochran, Tim D.; Harvey, Shelly; Leidy, Constance (2011), "Primary decomposition and the fractal nature of knot concordance", Mathematische Annalen, 351 (2): 443–508, arXiv:0906.1373, doi:10.1007/s00208-010-0604-5, MR 2836668, S2CID 7556758.