Ailsa Keating

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Ailsa Keating
Born
Ailsa Macgregor Keating
Alma mater Clare College, Cambridge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards Berwick Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions Columbia University
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Cambridge
Thesis Symplectic properties of Milnor fibres  (2014)
Doctoral advisor Paul Seidel
Website www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/person/amk50

Ailsa Macgregor Keating is a French and British mathematician specialising in symplectic geometry and homological mirror symmetry. She is a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge.

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Education and career

Keating grew up in Toulouse, France. [1] She read mathematics in Clare College, Cambridge from 2005 to 2009, earning a master's degree through Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. [2] She went on to graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing her dissertation in 2014 with the dissertation Symplectic properties of Milnor fibres supervised by Paul Seidel. [3]

She returned to Cambridge as a Junior Research Fellow in Trinity College in 2014, [2] at the same time doing postdoctoral research as a Simons Junior Fellow at Columbia University and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. She became a lecturer at Cambridge in 2017 [1] and was promoted to professor in 2023. [4]

Recognition

Keating is the winner of the 2021 Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society, for her research using Dehn twists to study the symmetries of symplectic manifolds. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Keating, Ailsa, About Ailsa Keating , retrieved 2022-02-03; see also linked curriculum vitae
  2. 1 2 "Through the looking glass", Features: Faculty Insights, Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics, retrieved 2022-02-03
  3. Ailsa Keating at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Senior Academic Promotions, Cambridge Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, retrieved 2023-12-04
  5. Berwick Prize: citation for Ailsa Keating (PDF), London Mathematical Society, retrieved 2022-02-03