Frances Kirwan

Frances Kirwan
Kirwan in 2009
Born21 August 1959[1]
UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
University of Oxford
AwardsWhitehead Prize (1989)
Senior Whitehead Prize (2013)
Suffrage Science award (2016)
Sylvester Medal of The Royal Society(2021)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Thesis The Cohomology of Quotients in Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry
Doctoral advisorMichael Atiyah
Websitewww.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/frances.kirwan

Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, DBE FRS (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]

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  2. ^ "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. ^ Professor Frances Kirwan profile Archived 6 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Faces of Mathematics; accessed 23 March 2022.