Lisa Sauermann

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Lisa Sauermann
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Lisa Sauermann, Oberwolfach 2013
Born (1992-09-25) 25 September 1992 (age 29)
Dresden, Saxony
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Bonn
Stanford University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorJacob Fox
Websitemath.mit.edu/~lsauerma/

Lisa Sauermann (born 25 September 1992) is a mathematician from Germany known for her performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad, where in 2011 she had the single highest (and perfect) score, and is the first woman to achieve this distinction. She won four gold medals (2008–2011) and one silver medal (2007) at the olympiad, representing Germany.[1][2]

Sauermann attended Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Gymnasium Dresden when she was in 12th grade. She won the Franz Ludwig Gehe Prize in 2011 and the gold medal in the age group III, the 11th–12th grade competition. As a result, she won a trip to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. To achieve this, she presented a new mathematical theorem with a proof in a work entitled "Forests with Hypergraphs".[3]

In 2011 she began studying mathematics at the University of Bonn.[4] She became a graduate student of Jacob Fox at Stanford University where she obtained her Ph.D. in 2019, receiving two prizes for her dissertation.[5] Currently she works as assistant professor at MIT where she lists her research interests as "extremal and probabilistic combinatorics".[6]

Her sister, Anne, two years her junior, was a successful participant in math and science Olympiads at the national level.[7]

Selected publications[]

  • ——— (2016). "On the μ-admissible set in the extended affine Weyl groups of E6 and E7". Journal of Algebra. 451: 526–543. arXiv:1411.5427. doi:10.1016/j.jalgebra.2015.11.047.
  • Reiher, C.; ——— (2014). "Nash-Williams' theorem on decomposing graphs into forests". Mathematika. 60 (1): 32–36. arXiv:1705.01648. doi:10.1112/S0025579313000119.

References[]

  1. ^ "Hall of Fame". International Mathematical Olympiad. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
  2. ^ "52nd IMO 2011: Individual results". International Mathematical Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2013-03-07. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
  3. ^ "Franz Ludwig Gehe Prize 2011: forests with hypergraphs and smart satchels". Celesio. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
  4. ^ Noack, Rick (5 October 2011). "Mein erstes Mal: Lisa, 18, wird Mathe-Weltmeisterin". Spiegel Online.
  5. ^ "Lisa Sauermann Receives Two Dissertation Prizes". mathematics.stanford.edu. September 8, 2020. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
  6. ^ "Lisa Sauermann personal website".
  7. ^ "Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Gymnasium Dresden". Manos-dresden.de. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
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