Elena Mantovan is a mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry.[1] Educated in Italy and the US, she works in the US as Taussky-Todd–Lonergan Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[2]

Elena Mantovan
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsArithmetic geometry
InstitutionsCaltech
ThesisOn Certain Unitary Group Shimura Varieties (2002)
Doctoral advisorRichard Taylor

Education and career

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Mantovan earned a laurea in mathematics at the University of Padua in 1995.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 at Harvard University. Her dissertation, On Certain Unitary Group Shimura Varieties, was supervised by Richard Taylor.[3] She later published it as part of the monograph Variétés de Shimura, espaces de Rapoport-Zink et correspondances de Langlands locales, co-authored with Laurent Fargues (Astérisque 291, Société mathématique de France, 2004).[4]

She was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, with Ken Ribet as a mentor, from 2002 until 2005.[1][5] In 2005, she joined the Caltech faculty. From August 2010 through March 2011, she was a von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.[6] She was promoted to full professor at Caltech in 2010, and was the executive officer of the mathematics department from 2016 to 2019.[2]

Mentorship

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Mantovan is faculty advisor for the Caltech chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[7] She has been cited as a mentor for undergraduate mathematicians including Ila Varma, 2009 honorable mention for the Alice T. Schafer Prize,[8] and Laura Lewis, 2021 winner of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) 2021 Collegiate Award.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Miller Fellow Focus: Elena Mantovan" (PDF), Miller Institute Newsletter, pp. 1–2, Spring 2004
  2. ^ a b c Elena Mantovan, California Institute of Technology, retrieved October 25, 2023
  3. ^ Elena Mantovan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Reviews of Variétés de Shimura, espaces de Rapoport-Zink et correspondances de Langlands locales, James Milne (2005), MR2087069; Min Ho Lee, Zbl 1062.11036
  5. ^ Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science: celebrating 50 years (PDF), p. 9
  6. ^ "Elena Mantovan", Institute for Advanced Study, retrieved May 8, 2020
  7. ^ California Institute of Technology AWM Student Chapter, retrieved March 3, 2019
  8. ^ Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman 2009, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved August 14, 2021
  9. ^ "Caltech Undergrad Wins Dual Computer Science Awards", News, California Institute of Technology, June 7, 2021, retrieved August 14, 2021
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