Dusa McDuff

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Dusa McDuff is a prominent British-American mathematician renowned for her foundational contributions to symplectic geometry and topology.

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instanceOf academic
mathematician
person
symplectic geometer
topologist
academicDegree PhD in mathematics
authorOf Introduction to Symplectic Topology
McDuff–Salamon theory of J-holomorphic curves
surface form: J-holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology
awardReceived Leroy P. Steele Prize
surface form: Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition

Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
surface form: Satter Prize in Mathematics

Berwick Prize
surface form: Senior Berwick Prize
birthDate 1945-10-18
birthPlace London, England
surface form: London
coAuthor Ana Cannas da Silva
Dietmar Salamon
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United States of America
doctoralAdvisor George A. Reid
educatedAt Somerville College, Oxford
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
employer Barnard College
Columbia University
familyName McDuff
fieldOfWork differential geometry
mathematical physics
symplectic geometry
topology
gender female
givenName Margaret Dusa
hasOccupation research mathematician
university professor
influenced development of modern symplectic topology
languageSpoken English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
name Dusa McDuff self-link
nationality American
British
notableFor foundational contributions to symplectic topology
pioneering work in symplectic geometry
notableWork McDuff–Salamon theory of J-holomorphic curves
foundational contributions to symplectic topology
work on Gromov–Witten invariants
work on Hamiltonian group actions
work on symplectic embeddings
positionHeld Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College
professor of mathematics

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