Fanny Kassel

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Fanny Kassel
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Fanny Kassel in 2011.
Born1984 (age 36–37)
NationalityFrench
EducationLycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure
University of Paris-Sud
AwardsCNRS Bronze Medal (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsLille University of Science and Technology
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Doctoral advisorYves Benoist

Fanny Kassel (born 1984) is a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of Lie groups.

Career[]

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.[1]

Honors and Awards[]

In 2015, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal and an ERC starting grant the following year.[2] 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".[3] She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Fanny Kassel joins IHES as a CNRS Researcher", IHES website (20-09-2016).
  2. ^ "Médailles d’argent et de bronze 2015", CNRS website (19-02-2015).
  3. ^ IMU 2018, list of invited speakers Archived 2017-10-25 at the Wayback Machine (section 6).
  4. ^ MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved 2021-06-07.

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