Dusa McDuff
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Dusa McDuff FRS CorrFRSE (born 18 October 1945) is an English mathematician who works on symplectic geometry. She was the first recipient of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics,[4] was a Noether Lecturer, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is currently the Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College.[5]
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Born | Margaret Dusa Waddington (1945-10-18) 18 October 1945 (age 78) London, England |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh Girton College, Cambridge |
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Awards | BMS Morning Speaker[1] Satter Prize (1991) Fellow of the Royal Society Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008) Speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians BMC Plenary Speaker [2] Sylvester Medal (2018) |
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Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Cambridge University of York University of Warwick Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study Stony Brook University Barnard College |
Doctoral advisor | George A. Reid[3] |
Doctoral students | Katrin Wehrheim |
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