Penka Georgieva

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Penka Vasileva Georgieva is a mathematician whose research interests include enumerative geometry, symplectic topology, and Gromov–Witten invariants. Educated in Bulgaria and the US, she works in France as a professor at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche, affiliated with Sorbonne University.

Education and career

Georgieva was a student of Vasil Tsanov in Bulgaria, earning a master's degree in 2005 with the master's thesis Quotients of the Ball of the Second Kind.[1] She went to Stanford University for doctoral study with Eleny Ionel, and defended her dissertation, Orientability of moduli spaces and open Gromov-Witten invariants, in 2011.[2] She completed a habilitation in 2020.[3][4]

After working as an instructor at Princeton University from 2011 to 2014, she came to the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu as a postdoctoral researcher in 2014, and continued as maître de conférences in 2016. She was named as a professor there in 2021.[3]

Recognition

Georgieva was an invited speaker at the 2022 (virtual) International Congress of Mathematicians.[5]

She received the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2022.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Vasil Valdemarov Tsanov" (PDF), Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics, 49: 81–106, 2018, MR 3838849
  2. ^ Penka Georgieva at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2024-08-17
  4. ^ a b Penka Georgieva: Géométrie et topologie (in French), CNRS, 10 February 2022, retrieved 2024-08-17
  5. ^ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2024-08-17