Dusa McDuff
Dusa McDuff | |
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Dusa McDuff, Edinburgh 2009 (80th Birthday of Michael Atiyah) | |
| Born | Margaret Dusa Waddington 18 October 1945 London, England |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh Girton College, Cambridge |
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| Awards | BMS Morning Speaker Satter Prize (1991) Fellow of the Royal Society Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008) Speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians BMC Plenary Speaker Sylvester Medal (2018) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge University of York University of Warwick Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study Stony Brook University Barnard College |
| Doctoral advisor | George A. Reid |
| Doctoral students | Katrin Wehrheim |
Dusa McDuff FRS CorrFRSE (born 18 October 1945) is an English mathematician who works on symplectic geometry. She was the first recipient of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, was a Noether Lecturer, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is currently the Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College.