Frances Kirwan Explained

Honorific Prefix:Dame
Frances Kirwan
Birth Date:21 August 1959[1]
Birth Place:UK
Nationality:British
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:University of Oxford
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Doctoral Advisor:Michael Atiyah
Thesis Title:The Cohomology of Quotients in Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry

Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, (born 21 August 1959)[2] is a British mathematician, currently Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry.[3] [4]

Education

Kirwan was educated at Oxford High School, and studied maths as an undergraduate at Clare College in the University of Cambridge.[5] 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.[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.[25]

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PROFESSOR FRANCES CLARE KIRWAN director information. Free director information. Director id 915281815. company check. ltd. Company Check.
  2. Web site: Frances Clare KIRWAN personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK. find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.
  3. Oxford University Calendar 2004-05, Oxford University Press (2004).
  4. http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~ndg/fom/kirwanqu.html Professor Frances Kirwan profile
  5. Web site: Frances Kirwan, Professor, Mathematics, University of Oxford . 10 May 2007 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20151113021001/http://advance.washington.edu/news/events/month/2007-05/frances-kirwan-professor-mathematics-university-oxford . 13 November 2015 . live . 13 November 2015.
  6. http://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/women-in-math/portrait/frances-kirwan Prof Kirwan profile
  7. http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ndg/fom/kirwanqu.html Prof Kirwan profile
  8. http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Kirwan_Frances Academia Europaea member profile
  9. Web site: Honorary Fellows . Clare College, Cambridge . 12 November 2015 . 31 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190331132711/http://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/Emeritus-Honorary-and-Foundation-Fellows/ . dead .
  10. Web site: People at Magdalen . 2022-05-12 . Magdalen College Oxford.
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20030707134559/http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/news/general/2003/pdlms.shtml "President Designate of the London Mathematical Society"
  12. Web site: Female Presidents for Three Maths Societies . IMA . . 14 March 2021 . 5 January 2018.
  13. http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/news/general/2004/kirwan.shtml Prof. Frances Kirwan awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship (2004)
  14. Web site: Frances Kirwan elected 20th Savilian Professor. 21 October 2017. 11 October 2017.
  15. Web site: Emeritus Fellows - Balliol. 17 November 2018. 28 August 2009.
  16. Web site: 2022 . History . 2022-05-12 . European Women in Mathematics . en-US.
  17. http://www.lms.ac.uk/prizes/list-lms-prize-winners#Whitehead_Prize Dr Frances Kirwan awarded the Whitehead Prize
  18. https://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/about-us/fellowship/Female-Fellows.pdf Profile
  19. http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/641 Prof. Frances Kirwan awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship
  20. https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  21. Web site: LMS members to receive maths and computing awards London Mathematical Society. 2021-05-13. lms-staging.ma.ic.ac.uk. 13 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210513101348/http://lms-staging.ma.ic.ac.uk/news-entry/04102016-1137/lms-members-receive-maths-and-computing-awards. dead. (registration required)
  22. Web site: January 2020 . Introducing our Honorary Graduates . 2022-05-12 . University of York . en.
  23. Web site: 2022 . Honorary graduates . 2022-12-03 . University of St Andrews . en.
  24. Web site: Discover the laureates of the 25th L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards UNESCO . 2023-06-14 . www.unesco.org . en.
  25. News: First female winner for maths medal. Webb. Jonathan. 12 August 2014. 8 October 2019. en-GB.
  26. Kleiman, Steven L.. Steven Kleiman. Review: An Introduction to Intersection Homology Theory, by Frances Kirwan. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1990. 22. 1. 127–138. 10.1090/s0273-0979-1990-15859-8. free.

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