Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn
Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn (born March 23, 1970)[1] is a Vietnamese mathematician who is an associate professor of mathematics and vice rector for the College of Science at Thái Nguyên University.[2] Her research concerns commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.[3]
Biography
Lê's father was a soldier, who died when she was young, and her mother was a schoolteacher. She was born in Thừa Thiên–Huế, and grew up in Thái Nguyên as the middle of five children in a poor family.[4]
Planning to become a teacher herself,[4] she studied mathematics at the Thái Nguyên College of Education from 1986 to 1990, earning a bachelor's degree, and on graduating became a lecturer in mathematics at the same institution. She continued her education at the Hanoi University of Education, earning a master's degree in 1995 and then at the Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology, earning her Ph.D. in 2001,[1] under the joint supervision of Prof. Nguyen Tu Cuong and Marcel Morales of Joseph Fourier University.[5]
She moved from the College of Education to the College of Science in 2002,[1] and was promoted to associate professor in 2005, becoming the youngest mathematician in Vietnam with that rank.[6] She has also been associated with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy as a junior associate member from 2002 to 2007 and as a regular associate member from 2009 to 2014.[1][3] In 2009 she became vice rector.[1]
Awards and honors
In 2011, she was one of two winners of the Kovalevskaya Prize, an annual award to promote women in the sciences in Vietnam.[2][3][4][6] The award is named after Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya and was established in 1985 by mathematician Neal Koblitz and his wife Ann Hibner Koblitz, based on the profits from Ann Koblitz' biography of Kovalevskaya.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d e Personal data for Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn, Thái Nguyên University, retrieved 2015-07-23.
- ^ a b Female Faculty of Thai Nguyen University accorded Kovalevskaia Award, Thái Nguyên University, April 21, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Prestigious Vietnamese award for ICTP Associate: Le Thi Thanh Nhan is winner of the 2011 Kovalevskaia Prize", News Highlights, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, June 5, 2012.
- ^ a b c Nguyen, Ha (March 13, 2012), "Women make their mark in sciences", Việt Nam News.
- ^ Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b B. Quyen, translated by Kim Khanh (March 4, 2012), "Vietnamese female scientists receive Kovalevskaia Award", Sài Gòn Giải Phóng.
- ^ Hickey, Hannah (2007-11-08), Neal Koblitz: Deciphering the cryptographer, University Week
