Fanny Kassel

Fanny Kassel
Kassel at Oberwolfach, 2011.
Born1983 (age 41–42)
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 1983[1]) 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.[2]

Honors and awards

In 2015, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal and an ERC starting grant the following year.[3] 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".[4] She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020.[5] In 2024, she was the recipient of the mathematics medal of the French Academy of Sciences.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Kassel, Fanny". IdRef (in French). Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Fanny Kassel joins IHES as a CNRS Researcher", IHES website (20 September 2016).
  3. ^ "Médailles d’argent et de bronze 2015", CNRS website (19 February 2015).
  4. ^ IMU 2018, list of invited speakers Archived 25 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine (section 6).
  5. ^ MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Fanny Kassel, laureate of the mathematics Medal of the French Academy of Sciences". IHES. 17 October 2024. Retrieved 25 October 2024.


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