Ragni_Piene

Ragni Piene

Ragni Piene

Norwegian mathematician

Ragni Piene (born 18 January 1947, Oslo)[1] is a Norwegian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry, with particular interest in enumerative results and intersection theory.[2]

Ragni Piene

Education and career

After a bachelor's degree from the University of Oslo in 1969 and a DEA from Université de Paris in 1970 [3] Piene received a doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, advised by Steven Kleiman. Her dissertation was titled Plücker Formulas.[4]

She was appointed professor at the University of Oslo in 1987.[5]

Recognition

She was elected a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1994,[2][6] and in 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society[7] and a member of the Academia Europaea.[8] We is also one of the protagonists of the Women of mathematics exhibition. [9]

Service

Since 2003 she has been a member of the executive committee of the International Mathematical Union, and was the chair of the Abel Committee from 2010–2011 to 2013–2014.[10][11]

References

  1. [1]
    CV Archived 2012-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
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    "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-05-01.
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    "Ragni Piene - Women of Mathematics throughout Europe. A gallery of portraits". womeninmath.net/catalogue/. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
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    "Ragni Piene - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.ams.org. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
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    Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Ragni Piene". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
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    "Gruppe 1: Matematiske fag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
  7. [7]
    List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-05-05.
  8. [8]
    List of members, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2020-10-02
  9. [9]
    RAGNI PIENE - Women of Mathematics throughout Europe. A gallery of portraits
  10. [10]
    "The Abel Committee 2010/2011". Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  11. [11]
    "The Abel Committee 2013/2014". Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
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