Frances Kirwan

Frances Kirwan

Frances Clare Kirwan FRS (born 1959) is a British mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

Educated at Oxford High School, she studied at the University of Cambridge. She took a D.Phil at Oxford in 1984, supervised by Michael Atiyah. [ [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=59549 Frances Clare Kirwan] , "Mathematical Genealogy Project"] From 1983 to 1985 she held a Junior Fellowship at Harvard, and from 1983 to 1986 a Fellowship at Magdalen College, before later becoming a Fellow of Balliol College. In 1996 she was appointed a University Professor of Mathematics. From 2004-2006 she was President of the London Mathematical Society, the second-youngest president in the society's history. [ [http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/news/general/2003/pdlms.shtml President Designate of the London Mathematical Society] . "Mathematical Institute News", University of Oxford, 2004.] In 2005, she received a five-year EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship, to support her research on the moduli spaces of complex algebraic curves. [ [http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/news/general/2004/kirwan.shtml Prof. Frances Kirwan awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship] . "Mathematical Institute News", University of Oxford, 2004]

Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry.

References

*"Oxford University Calendar 2004-5", Oxford University Press, 2004.
* [http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~ndg/fom/kirwanqu.html Professor Frances Kirwan] , "Faces of Mathematics"

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