Fern Hunt

**Fern Yvette Hunt** (an haife ta a ranar 14 ga Janairu, 1948) ƙwararriyar masaniyar lissafi ce 'yar Afirka  wacce aka san ta da aikinta a fannin lissafi da ilmin lissafi .  A halin yanzu tana aiki a matsayin mai bincike a Cibiyar Ma'auni da Fasaha ta Ƙasa, inda take gudanar da bincike kan ka'idar ergodic na tsarin dynamic . 

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Hunt a birnin New York a ranar 14 ga Janairu, 1948, ga Daphne Lindsay da Thomas Edward Hunt. 'Yar uwarta, Erica Hunt, marubuciya ce kuma marubuciya da aka buga. Kakanin Hunt sun yi ƙaura zuwa Amurka daga Jamaica kafin Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya .   Iyalinta sun zauna a wani aikin gidaje na baƙi a Hampton. Mahaifinta bai kammala karatun sakandare ba, kuma duk da cewa mahaifiyarta ta halarci Kwalejin Hunter na tsawon shekaru biyu, ba ta sami digiri ba. Lokacin da Hunt ke da shekaru 9, mahaifiyarta ta ba ta kyautar sinadari don Kirsimeti, wanda ya haifar da sha'awarta ga kimiyya tun farko. Malamin kimiyyar makarantar sakandare ta Hunt, Charles Wilson, ya ƙara ƙarfafa Hunt ta nemi lissafi da kimiyya.   Hunt ta halarci Makarantar Kimiyya ta Bronx, kuma a lokacin da take makarantar sakandare ne babban abin da ta fi mayar da hankali a kai ya koma kimiyya zuwa lissafi.  Bayan kammala karatun sakandare, Hunt ta halarci Kwalejin Bryn Mawr bayan ƙarfafa gwiwar mahaifiyarta, inda ta sami digirin AB a fannin lissafi a shekarar 1969.  Ta ci gaba da samun digirin masters da PhD a fannin lissafi daga Cibiyar Lissafi ta Courant da ke Jami'ar New York a shekarar 1978.  Takardar shaidar digirin PhD ɗinta (1978) Frank Hoppensteadt ya ba da shawarar *bambancin kwayoyin halitta da sarari a wasu samfuran Zaɓi-Ƙaura* . 

## Sana'a
Hunt ta fara aikinta na ilimi a Jami'ar Utah, kuma a shekarar 1978, ta karɓi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar farfesa a Jami'ar Howard . Ta ci gaba da zama memba a Sashen Lissafi a Howard har zuwa 1993. Yayin da take a Howard, ta kuma yi aiki a Cibiyoyin Lafiya na Ƙasa a Dakin Gwaji na Lissafi (1981-1982) da Ofishin Ma'auni na Ƙasa (1986-1991).  Bugu da ƙari, daga 1988 zuwa 1991, ta kasance memba na Hukumar Ba da Shawara kan Lissafi ta GRE a Sabis na Gwaji na Ilimi (ETS). A shekarar 1993, ta bar Howard ta fara aiki a Cibiyar Ma'auni da Fasaha ta Ƙasa, inda ta yi aiki a kan matsalolin lissafi daga binciken kimiyyar lissafi da sinadarai. Yayin da take aiki a NIST ta ci gaba da bincikenta kan ka'idar ergodic na tsarin dynamic. 

Fern ta kuma yi lacca a kwalejoji da jami'o'i don ƙarfafa ɗalibai a fannin lissafi. Tana amfani da abubuwan da ta fuskanta game da koma-baya da ta fuskanta a matsayinta na baƙar fata a fannin lissafi don jagorantar ɗaliban tsiraru da ke sha'awar lissafi. A shekarar 1998 ta kasance malami a wani taron bita na bazara ga mata masu shiga shirye-shiryen digiri na uku a fannin lissafi wanda Gidauniyar EDGE ( Inganta Bambanci a Ilimin Digiri na Biyu ) ke gudanarwa. 

## Lambobin yabo da nasarori
A shekara ta 2000, Hunt ta sami kyautar Arthur S. Flemming saboda gudummawar da ta bayar ga yiwuwar yin aiki da kuma tsarin stochastic, ilmin lissafi, lissafi, tsarin lissafi, yanayin aiki mara layi, zane-zanen kwamfuta, da kuma kwamfuta mai layi daya .  Ta kasance memba a kwamitin amintattu na Kwalejin Bryn Mawr tun 1992 da kuma Kwamitin Ba da Shawara kan Binciken Halittu da Muhalli na Ma'aikatar Makamashi ta Amurka tun 1994. 

An saka Hunt a cikin ajin abokan karatunta na American Lissafi Society na shekarar 2019 "saboda kyakkyawan amfani da lissafi ga kimiyya da fasaha, hidima ta musamman ga gwamnatin Amurka, da kuma wayar da kan jama'a da jagoranci". Ƙungiyar Mata a Lissafi ta haɗa ta cikin ajin AWM Fellows na shekarar 2020 saboda "jajircewarta ta musamman ga wayar da kan jama'a da jagoranci; don ci gaba da ƙoƙarinta na sanya ƙungiyar AWM ta zama mai haɗaka; don hidimarta ga manyan makarantu da gwamnati; da kuma ƙarfafa waɗanda ba a wakilta a lissafi ba tare da aikinta a ka'idar ergodic, yiwuwa, da lissafi".

Aikin Hunt ya sa ta samu karramawa daga Mathematically Gifted &amp;amp; Black a matsayin Black History Month 2017 Honoree. 

## Ayyukan da aka Buga

* HUNT, FY (2005). Masanin Lissafi a NIST Today. In BA CASE & AM LEGGETT (Edits.), Rikice-rikice: Mata a Lissafi (shafi na 314–327). Princeton University Press.

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