Meike Akveld

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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]

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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:

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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. 1 2 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:
  9. Reviews of Knoten in der Mathematik:
  10. Reviews of Knots Unravelled:
  11. Review of Analysis: