Cristina Manolache

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Cristina Manolache
CitizenshipItalian
EducationImperial College, London
Awards
  • Emmy Noether Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Sheffield
Thesis Virtual intersections  (2008/2009)
Doctoral advisor Ionut¸ Ciocan-Fontanine, Barbara Fantechi

Cristina Manolache is a mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield. [1]

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Education and career

Manolache received her PhD in Mathematics from SISSA in 2009. [2] Her dissertation, Virtual Intersections, [3] was supervised by Barbara Fantechi. [3] Manolache specializes in algebraic geometry and has expertise in birational geometry and wall crossings. [4] She has contributed to publications of the American Mathematical Society and Cambridge University Press. Notable publications include Reduced invariants from cuspidal maps (2020), [5] co-authored with Luca Battistella and Francesca Carocci; Stable maps and stable quotients (2014); [6] Virtual pull-backs] (2012); [7] and Virtual push-forwards (2012). [8]

Awards and honors

Manolache was awarded the Emmy Noether Fellowship in 2020. [9]

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References

  1. "Dr Cristina Manolache". The University of Sheffield. Archived from the original on 2019-10-04. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  2. "SISSA profile page" . Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  3. 1 2 Manolache, Cristina (2008–2009). "Virtual Intersections" (PDF). SISSA.
  4. "Video: Cristina Manolache, "A splitting of the virtual class"". www.birs.ca. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  5. Battistella, Luca; Carocci, Francesca; Manolache, Cristina (2020). "Reduced invariants from cuspidal maps". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 373 (9): 6713–6756. arXiv: 1801.07739 . doi: 10.1090/tran/8141 . ISSN   0002-9947.
  6. Manolache, Cristina (2014). "Stable maps and stable quotients". Compositio Mathematica. 150 (9): 1457–1481. arXiv: 1301.4393 . doi: 10.1112/S0010437X14007258 . ISSN   0010-437X.
  7. Manolache, Cristina (2011). "Virtual pull-backs". Journal of Algebraic Geometry. 21 (2): 201–245. doi: 10.1090/S1056-3911-2011-00606-1 . S2CID   16201909.
  8. Manolache, Cristina (2012-08-31). "Virtual push-forwards". Geometry & Topology. 16 (4): 2003–2036. arXiv: 1010.2704 . doi: 10.2140/gt.2012.16.2003 . ISSN   1364-0380.
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