Meike Akveld

Akveld in Berkeley, 2016

Meike Maria Elisabeth Akveld is a Swiss mathematician and textbook author, whose professional interests include knot theory, symplectic geometry, and mathematics education. She is a tenured senior scientist and lecturer in the mathematics and teacher education group in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich. ^{[1] [2] [3]} She is also the organizer of the Mathematical Kangaroo competitions in Switzerland, ^[4] and president of the Association Kangourou sans Frontières, a French-based international society devoted to the popularization of mathematics. ^{[5] [6]}

Education

Akveld earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Warwick and took Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge. ^[3] She completed her Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in 2000, with the dissertation Hofer geometry for Lagrangian loops, a Legendrian knot and a travelling wave jointly supervised by Dietmar Salamon and Leonid Polterovich. ^[7]

Books

Akveld's mathematics books include:

• Canonical metrics in Kähler geometry (by Tian Gang, based on notes taken by Akveld, Birkhäuser, 2000) ^[8]
• Knoten in der Mathematik: Ein Spiel mit Schnüren, Bildern und Formeln (Knots in mathematics: A game with strings, pictures and formulas, in German, Orell Füssli, 2007) ^[9]
• Hofer geometry for Lagrangian loops: And a Legendrian Knot and a travelling wave (VDM Verlag, 2008)
• Integrieren - do it yourself (in German, with Ursula Eisler and Daniel Zogg, Orell Füssli, 2010)
• Knots Unravelled: From String to Mathematics (with Andrew Jobbings, Arbelos, 2011) ^[10]
• Analysis I and Analysis II (in German, with René Sperb, VDF Hochschulverlag, 2012 and 2015) ^[11]
• Knopen in de wiskunde (Knots in mathematics, in Dutch, with Ab van der Roest, Epsilon Uitgaven, 2015)
• Mathe mit dem Känguru 5: Die schönsten Aufgaben von 2015 bis 2019 (Math with the kangaroo 5: The most beautiful problems from 2015 to 2019, in German, with Alexander Unger, Monika Noack, and Robert Geretschläger  [ de ], Hanser Verlag, 2019)

References

1. "Dr. Meike Akveld", The Department: People, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2020-12-18
2. "Meike Akveld receives Golden Owl", DMath News, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, 27 November 2014, retrieved 2020-12-18
3. Meike Akveld, European Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2020-12-18
4. "Meike Akveld and the Kangaroo", DMath News, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, 16 March 2017, retrieved 2020-12-18
5. Official, Kangourou sans Frontières, retrieved 2020-12-18
6. "Meike Akveld: President Kangaroo Board", DMath News, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, 20 November 2019, retrieved 2020-12-18
7. Meike Akveld at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
8. Reviews of Canonical metrics in Kähler geometry:
   • Bokan, Neda, zbMATH , Zbl   0978.53002
   • Kasparian, Azniv (2001), MathSciNet , MR   1787650
9. Reviews of Knoten in der Mathematik:
   • Ernst, Claus, zbMATH , Zbl   1232.57005
   • Schneebeli, H. R. (2008), Elemente der Mathematik : 194–196, doi: 10.4171/em/108
10. Reviews of Knots Unravelled:
    • Banks, Jessica, zbMATH , Zbl   1245.57001
    • Díaz, Raquel (2013), Elemente der Mathematik , 68 (1): 44, doi: 10.4171/em/218
    • Fenn, Roger (July 2014), "Review" (PDF), London Mathematical Society Newsletter, no. 438, pp. 47–48
    • Johannes, Jeff, MathSciNet , MR   2895061
    • Macleod, N. G. (May 2012), Mathematics in School, 41 (3): 39, JSTOR   23269228
    • Ruane, P. N. (March 2014), The Mathematical Gazette , 98 (541): 179–180, doi:10.1017/S002555720000111X, JSTOR   24496633, S2CID   233361347
    • Taylor, Scott (April 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America
11. Review of Analysis:
    • Rogosin, Sergei V., zbMATH , Zbl   1311.26001

External links

• Home page
• Meike Akveld publications indexed by Google Scholar