Mary Silber

Mary Catherine Silber is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago who works in bifurcation theory and pattern formation.

Silber earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Sonoma State University in 1981. She completed her Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989, under the supervision of Edgar Knobloch. Her dissertation was Bifurcations with ${\displaystyle D(4)}$ Symmetry and Spatial Pattern Selection.

After postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota, Georgia Institute of Technology, and California Institute of Technology, she joined the Northwestern faculty in 1993. She moved to the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago in 2015 as a faculty member in the Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative.

In 2012 she became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics "for contributions to the analysis of bifurcations in the presence of symmetry".