Frances Kirwan
| Dame Frances Kirwan DBE FRS | |
|---|---|
 Kirwan in 2009 | |
| Born | 1959 (age 56–57) |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Atiyah |
| Notable awards |
Whitehead Prize (1989) Senior Whitehead Prize (2013) |
Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, DBE 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.[1][2]
Education
Kirwan was educated at Oxford High School, and studied maths as an undergraduate at Clare College in the University of Cambridge.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5] Her work endeavours to understand the structure of geometric objects by investigation of their algebraic and topological properties.[6] She introduced the Kirwan map. From 1983-85 she held a Junior Fellowship at Harvard. From 1983-86 she held a Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, before later becoming a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.[7] She is an honorary fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.[8]
In 1996 she was appointed a University Professor of Mathematics. From 2004-06 she was President of the London Mathematical Society, the second-youngest president in the society's history.[9] In 2005, she received a five-year EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship, to support her research on the moduli spaces of complex algebraic curves.[10]
Prizes, awards and scholarships
- London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize, 1989[11]
- Fellow of the Royal Society, 2001 [12]
- President, London Mathematical Society, 2003-2005
- EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship, 2005-2010, for her work in algebraic geometry[13]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012[14]
- London Mathematical Society Senior Whitehead Prize, 2013[11]
- DBE for services to mathematics, 2014 [15]
- Member of Academia Europaea[7]
- Chairman of the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
Publications
- Cohomology of Quotients in Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry. Mathematical Notes. 31. Princeton University Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0691083704.
- An Introduction to Intersection Homology Theory. Longman Scientific and Technical. 1988.[16] with Jonathan Woolf: 2nd edn. CRC Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1584881841.
- Complex Algebraic Curves. London Mathematical Society Student Texts. Cambridge University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0521423533.
References
- ↑ Oxford University Calendar 2004-5, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- ↑ Professor Frances Kirwan, Faces of Mathematics
- ↑ "Frances Kirwan, Professor, Mathematics, University of Oxford". University of Washington. 10 May 2007. Archived from the original on 13 November 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ↑ Frances Kirwan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Prof Kirwan profile, europeanwomeninmaths.org; accessed 9 May 2014.
- ↑ Prof Kirwan profile, macs.hw.ac.uk; accessed 9 May 2014.
- 1 2 Academia Europaea member profile, retrieved 2014-06-22.
- ↑ "Honorary Fellows". Clare College, Cambridge. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ↑ "President Designate of the London Mathematical Society", Mathematical Institute News, University of Oxford, 2004.
- ↑ Prof. Frances Kirwan awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship (2004), maths.ox.ac.uk; accessed 9 May 2014.
- 1 2 Dr Frances Kirwan awarded the Whitehead Prize, lms.ac.uk; accessed 9 May 2014.
- ↑ Profile, royalsociety.org; accessed 9 May 2014.
- ↑ Prof. Frances Kirwan awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship, Univ. of Oxford Mathematical Inst., retrieved 2014-10-20.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society; accessed 9 May 2014
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60728. p. 7. 31 December 2013.
- ↑ Kleiman, Steven L. (1990). "Review: An Introduction to Intersection Homology Theory, by Frances Kirwan". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 22 (1): 127–138. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1990-15859-8.