Maryanthe Malliaris

Maryanthe Elizabeth Malliaris is a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago,^[1] a specialist in model theory.

Early life and education[]

Malliaris is the daughter of Anastasios G. (Tassos) Malliaris, an economist at Loyola University Chicago, and Mary E. Malliaris, Professor of Information Systems at Loyola.^[2]

As an undergraduate at Harvard College, Malliaris wrote for the Harvard Crimson,^[3] contributed a biography of Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman to the Encyclopedia of Postmodernism,^[ZB] and worked for a startup called Zaps.^[4]

She graduated from Harvard in 2001 with a concentration in mathematics,^[4] and earned her Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of . Her dissertation was Persistence and Regularity in Unstable Model Theory.^[5]

Research[]

In her dissertation and postdoctoral research, Malliaris studied unstable model theory and its connection, via characteristic sequences, to graph theoretic concepts such as the Szemerédi regularity lemma.^[6]

She is also known for two joint papers with Saharon Shelah connecting topology, set theory, and model theory.^[MS13][MS16] In this work, Malliaris and Shelah used Keisler's order, a construction from model theory, to prove the equality between two cardinal characteristics of the continuum,