Frances Kirwan
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| Born | 1959 (age 53–54) |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Atiyah |
Frances Clare Kirwan, FRS (born 1959) is a British mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry.
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Professional career [edit]
Educated at Oxford High School, she studied at the University of Cambridge. She took a D.Phil at Oxford in 1984, supervised by Michael Atiyah.[1] From 1983 to 1985 she held a Junior Fellowship at Harvard, and from 1983 to 1986 a Fellowship at Magdalen College, before later becoming a Fellow of Balliol College.
In 1996 she was appointed a University Professor of Mathematics. From 2004-2006 she was President of the London Mathematical Society, the second-youngest president in the society's history.[2] In 2005, she received a five-year EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship, to support her research on the moduli spaces of complex algebraic curves.[3]
Awards and honours [edit]
In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]
Publications [edit]
- Cohomology of quotients in symplectic and algebraic geometry. Princeton University Press. 1984.
- An introduction to intersection homology theory. Longman Scientific and Technical. 1988.[5] with Jonathan Woolf: 2nd edn. CRC Press. 2006.
- Complex algebraic curves. Cambridge University Press. 1992.
Notes [edit]
- ^ Frances Kirwan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ President Designate of the London Mathematical Society. Mathematical Institute News, University of Oxford, 2004.
- ^ Prof. Frances Kirwan awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship. Mathematical Institute News, University of Oxford, 2004
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
- ^ Kleiman, Steven L. (1990). "Review: An introduction to intersection homology theory, by Frances Kirwan". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 22 (1): 127–138.
References [edit]
- Oxford University Calendar 2004-5, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Professor Frances Kirwan, Faces of Mathematics
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- British mathematicians
- Algebraic geometers
- Women mathematicians
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford
- Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Female Fellows of the Royal Society
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Harvard Fellows
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Whitehead Prize winners
- People educated at Oxford High School (Oxford)
- 20th-century mathematicians
- 21st-century mathematicians
