"Katy" Ott is an American mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, and known for her advocacy of women in mathematics.
[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Boundary Integral Equations in Non-Smooth Domains, was supervised by Irina Mitrea.
[3] At the University of Kentucky, she organized the Sonia Kovalevsky Day program of activities for female secondary school students and their teachers.
[3] For her work organizing the Sonia Kovalevsky Day program, Ott received the 2014 National Service Award of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
[5] She was named a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2024, "for immense dedication to outreach to girls and women, including directing GirlsGetMath at ICERM; supporting AWM through committees, grant-writing, the newsletter, and AWM’s USA Science and Engineering Festival booth; and leading award-winning tutoring and volunteering initiatives in Maine".