Dusa McDuff

Dusa McDuff
Photograph of Dusa McDuff, Edinburgh 2009
Dusa McDuff, Edinburgh 2009 (80th Birthday of Michael Atiyah)
Born
Margaret Dusa Waddington

(1945-10-18) 18 October 1945 (age 79)
London, England
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Girton College, Cambridge
Spouses
(m. 1968; div. 1978)
(m. 1984)
Parents
AwardsBMS 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)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of York
University of Warwick
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Institute for Advanced Study
Stony Brook University
Barnard College
Doctoral advisorGeorge A. Reid[3]
Doctoral studentsKatrin Wehrheim

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]

  1. ^ "BMS Morning Speakers −2012". Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  2. ^ "BMC Plenary Speaker". Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  3. ^ Dusa McDuff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Browse Prizes and Awards". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Dusa McDuff | Barnard College". barnard.edu. Retrieved 16 August 2022.