Frances Kirwan
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Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, Template: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
- London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize, 1989[17]
- Fellow of the Royal Society, 2001[18]
- President, London Mathematical Society, 2003–2005
- EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship, 2005–2010, for her work in algebraic geometry[19]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012[20]
- London Mathematical Society Senior Whitehead Prize, 2013[17]
- DBE for services to mathematics, 2014[21]
- Maths and Computing Suffrage Science award, 2016[22]
- Member of Academia Europaea[8]
- Chairman of the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
- Sylvester Medal of The Royal Society, 2021
- Honorary degree, University of York, 2020[23]
- Honorary degree, University of St Andrews, 2022[24]
- L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards (Laureate for Europe – Mathematics), 2023[25]
Kirwan served on the medal-selection committee that awarded the Fields medal to Maryam Mirzakhani.[26]
Publications
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References
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- ↑ Profile, royalsociety.org; accessed 9 May 2014.
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- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society; accessed 9 May 2014
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