Frances Kirwan
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Frances Clare Kirwan is a British mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Educated at Oxford High School, she studied at the University of Cambridge. She took a D.Phil at Oxford in 1984, supervised by Michael Atiyah.[1] From 1983 to 1985 she held a Junior Fellowship at Harvard, and from 1983 to 1986 a Fellowship at Magdalen College, before later becoming a Fellow of Balliol College. In 1996 she was appointed a University Professor of Mathematics. From 2004-2006 she was President of the London Mathematical Society, the second-youngest president in the society's history.[2] In 2005, she received a five-year EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship, to support her research on the moduli spaces of complex algebraic curves.[3]
Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry.
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- Oxford University Calendar 2004-5, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Professor Frances Kirwan, Faces of Mathematics
- ^ Frances Clare Kirwan, Mathematical Genealogy Project
- ^ President Designate of the London Mathematical Society. Mathematical Institute News, University of Oxford, 2004.
- ^ Prof. Frances Kirwan awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship. Mathematical Institute News, University of Oxford, 2004
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