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Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, Шаблон:Post-nominals (born 21 August 1959)[1] is a British mathematician, currently Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry.[2][3]

Education

Kirwan was educated at Oxford High School, and studied maths as an undergraduate at Clare College in the University of Cambridge.[4] She took a D.Phil at Oxford in 1984, with the dissertation title The Cohomology of Quotients in Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry, which was supervised by Michael Atiyah.[5]

Research

Kirwan's research interests include moduli spaces in algebraic geometry, geometric invariant theory (GIT), and in the link between GIT and moment maps in symplectic geometry.[6] Her work endeavours to understand the structure of geometric objects by investigation of their algebraic and topological properties.[7] She introduced the Kirwan map.

From 1983 to 1985 she held a junior fellowship at Harvard. From 1983 to 1986 she held a Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, before becoming a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.[8] She is an honorary fellow of Clare College, Cambridge[9] and also at Magdalen College.[10]

In 1996, she was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of Mathematics. From 2004 to 2006 she was president of the London Mathematical Society, the second-youngest president in the society's history and only the second woman to be president.[11][12] In 2005, she received a five-year EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship, to support her research on the moduli spaces of complex algebraic curves.[13]

In 2017, she was elected Savilian Professor of Geometry, becoming the first woman to hold the post.[14] While this entailed a move to New College, Oxford she was elected an emeritus fellow at Balliol.[15] She was the convenor of the 2008–9 meeting of European Women in Mathematics and deputy convenor of the following meeting in 2010–11.[16]

Prizes, awards and scholarships

Kirwan served on the medal-selection committee that awarded the Fields medal to Maryam Mirzakhani.[26]

Publications

References

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External links

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