Fanny Kassel (born 1983[1]) is a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of Lie groups.
Fanny Kassel | |
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 Kassel at Oberwolfach, 2011. | |
| Born | 1983 (age 40–41) |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure University of Paris-Sud |
| Awards | CNRS Bronze Medal (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Lille University of Science and Technology Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques |
| Doctoral advisor | Yves Benoist |
Career edit
Kassel received her PhD under the direction of Yves Benoist at the University of Paris-Sud in 2009. Her thesis was on "Compact quotients of real or p-adic homogeneous spaces". She then entered the CNRS and worked at the Paul-Painlevé Laboratory of the University of Lille I until 2016, when she joined the IHÉS as detached CNRS researcher.[2]
Honors and awards edit
In 2015, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal and an ERC starting grant the following year.[3] In 2018, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Rio de Janeiro; her lecture was on "Geometric structures and representations of discrete groups".[4] She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020.[5]
References edit
- ^ "Kassel, Fanny". IdRef (in French). Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ^ "Fanny Kassel joins IHES as a CNRS Researcher", IHES website (20 September 2016).
- ^ "Médailles d’argent et de bronze 2015", CNRS website (19 February 2015).
- ^ IMU 2018, list of invited speakers Archived 25 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine (section 6).
- ^ MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
External links edit
- Personal page on IHES website.
- Fanny Kassel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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