Konstanze Rietsch

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Konstanze Rietsch is a pure mathematician who was educated in Austria and the US. She works in the UK as Professor of Geometry at King's College London.

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Research

Rietsch's research concerns the geometry of flag varieties and mirror symmetry in Lie theory. [1]

Education and career

Rietsch received a master's degree in 1993 from the University of Vienna in 1993 and completed a Ph.D. in 1998 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] Her doctoral dissertation, Total Positivity and Real Flag Varieties, was supervised by George Lusztig. [2]

Following her doctorate, she visited the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, [3] and became a postdoctoral research fellow in Newnham College, Cambridge. [4] Next, she became a Violette and Samuel Glasstone Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. [5]

She moved to King's College in 2002.

Recognition

Rietsch is an invited speaker at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Konstanze Rietsch", Profiles, King's College London, retrieved 2025-11-23
  2. ↑ Konstanze Rietsch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ "Konni Rietsch", Scholars, Institute for Advanced Study, retrieved 2025-11-23
  4. ↑ "College Notices", Cambridge University Reporter, 1 July 1998, retrieved 2025-11-23
  5. ↑ Biographical information from Rietsch, Konstanze (November 2002), "Totally positive Toeplitz matrices and quantum cohomology of partial flag varieties", Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 16 (2): 363–392, doi:10.1090/s0894-0347-02-00412-5
  6. ↑ "Speakers", ICM 2026, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2025-11-23
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