Isabel Hubard Escalera Explained

Isabel Alicia Hubard Escalera
Nationality:Mexican
Occupation:Mathematician
Known For:Studies of symmetries of combinatorial objects
Awards:L'Oréal-UNESCO-AMC Fellowship in the area of Exact Sciences, 2012
Kovalevskaia Fund Prize, 2010
Alma Mater:York University (Doctoral). School of Sciences, UNAM (Undergraduate).
Thesis Title:From geometry to groups and back: the study of highly symmetric polytopes (2007)
Doctoral Advisor:Asia Ivić Weiss
Workplaces:Institute of Mathematics, UNAM
Website:http://www.matem.unam.mx/fsd/hubard

Isabel Alicia Hubard Escalera is a Mexican mathematician in the Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Early life and education

As a child, Isabel Alicia Hubard wanted to be a bullfighter. She has said of her family, "My mother is an engineer and my father an accountant. My brother is a mathematician and my sister a physicist. I never thought that I would like math. I simply found it easy and fun, but nothing more. However, my mathematics teacher in junior high and high school, Óscar Chávez, inspired me."[1]

Hubard Escalera began her studies in the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, where in 2001, she graduated in Mathematics with a baccalaureate thesis titled Polyhedra colored with cyclic orders.[2] [3] It was written in the Institute of Mathematics of the UNAM, where she carried out investigations related to the combinatorial properties of discrete geometrical objects.[4] [5] [6] Her undergraduate advisor was Javier Bracho Carpizo.

In 2007, she earned a Ph.D. from York University in Canada, with a dissertation titled From geometry to groups and back: the study of highly symmetric polytopes.[7] [8]

Career

Hubard Escalera investigates the study of symmetries of combinatorial objects.

She has been the organiser of the Mexico City Mathematics Olympiad in Mexico City since 2013, an organization that played a prominent role in recent national competitions, achieving the first place of the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Olimpiadas Mexicanas de Matematicas (OMM), and won the basic education national competitions (OMMEB) the same years. She is the delegate for Mexico City in the Mexican Mathematics Olympiad of the Mexican Mathematics Society. She has also been the leader of the Mexican team at EGMO since 2014, competition in which Mexico has won two gold medals, with Isabel mentoring the girls.

Recognition

She was awarded the Kovalevskaia Fund Prize in 2010.[9]

In 2012 she was the first Mexican mathematician to receive the L´Oréal-UNESCO-AMC Fellowship in the area of Exact Sciences for her work, titled Algebra, combinatorics and geometry of abstract two-orbit polytopes.[2] [5] The Fellowship is awarded to "promote the participation of women in science for advanced scientific studies in universities or other recognized Mexican institutions in the areas of exact sciences, natural sciences and engineering and technology."

She was elected to the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2022.[10]

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Zubieta García, Judith. Young Women Scientists: A bright future for the Americas. November 2015. Inter-American Network of Academies of Sciences. 978-607-8379-24-8. 2017-01-24. 2018-05-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20180508144037/http://www.ancefn.org.ar/biblioteca/docs/YOUNG%2013DIC15.pdf. dead.
  2. Web site: Coordinación de Comunicación y Divulgación, AMC - Vuelven los Poliedros a Ser Retomados por los Matemáticos. Zúñiga Murrieta. Nancy. 2013-04-05. www.comunicacion.amc.edu.mx. Academia Mexicana de Ciencias. es-MX. 2017-01-24.
  3. Web site: Tesis que para Obtener el Titulo de Matematica, Presenta: Isabel Alicia Hubard Escalera. 132.248.9.195. 2017-01-24.
  4. Web site: Isabel Hubard — Instituto de Matemáticas UNAM. www.matem.unam.mx. es. 2017-01-24.
  5. Web site: Isabel Hubard Escalera, primera matemática en obtener la beca L'Oréal-UNESCO-AMC. 2013-05-05. www.dgcs.unam.mx. Boletín UNAM-DGCS-280 Ciudad Universitaria.. 2017-01-24.
  6. Web site: La Jornada: Combatir los mitos que rodean a las matemáticas, el gran reto. Mateos-Vega. Mónica. 2015-06-26. La Jornada. 2017-01-24.
  7. Web site: Convocation. February 2008. York University. 13. 2017-01-24.
  8. Book: Isabel A. Hubard. From Geometry to Groups and Back: The Study of Highly Symmetric Polytopes. 2007. York University (Canada). 978-0-494-45997-3.
  9. Web site: Winners of the Kovalevskaia Fund Prizes and Scholarships since 2005. 2015. The Kovalevskaia Fund. 2017-01-17.
  10. Web site: Mathematics section members. Mexican Academy of Sciences. 2022. 2022-12-05.

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