Kari Hag

Kari Jorun Blakkisrud Hag (born April 4, 1941) is a Norwegian mathematician known for her research in complex analysis on quasicircles and quasiconformal mappings, and for her efforts for gender equality in mathematics.

[1] With Frederick Gehring she is the author of the book The Ubiquitous Quasidisk (American Mathematical Society, 2012).

Her dissertation, Quasiconformal Boundary Correspondences and Extremal Mappings, was supervised by Gehring.

[5] After completing her doctorate, she joined the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), which later became part of NTNU.

[3] NTNU gave Hag their gender equality award in 2000, for her efforts to increase the interest of girls in science and mathematics.

Hag with the NTNU gender equality award in 2000