Nationality British Fields Mathematics Role Mathematician | Name Frances Kirwan Doctoral advisor Michael Atiyah | |
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Alma mater University of Cambridge Education University of Oxford, University of Cambridge Notable awards Whitehead Prize, Senior Whitehead Prize Books Complex algebraic curves, Cohomology of Quotients, An Introduction to Interse, Complex Algebraic Curves C | ||
Institutions University of Oxford | ||
Professor dame frances kirwan
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.
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- Professor dame frances kirwan
- Jdg 2017 frances kirwan variation of non reductive geometric invariant theory
- Education
- Research
- Prizes awards and scholarships
- Publications
- References
Jdg 2017 frances kirwan variation of non reductive geometric invariant theory
Education
Kirwan was educated at Oxford High School, and studied maths as an undergraduate at Clare College in the University of Cambridge. 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.
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. Her work endeavours to understand the structure of geometric objects by investigation of their algebraic and topological properties. 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. She is an honorary fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.
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. In 2005, she received a five-year EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship, to support her research on the moduli spaces of complex algebraic curves.
Prizes, awards and scholarships
