Zoé Chatzidakis

Zoé Chatzidakis
Born	(1955-04-03)3 April 1955
Died	22 January 2025(2025-01-22) (aged 69)
Alma mater	Yale university
Awards	Leconte Prize (2013) Tarski Lectures (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Model theory, Algebra
Institutions	École normale supérieure (Paris)
Thesis	Model Theory of Profinite Groups  (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Angus John Macintyre

Zoé Maria Chatzidakis (3 April 1955 – 22 January 2025) was a French mathematician who worked as a director of research at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France.[1]

Life and career

Chatzidakis was born on 3 April 1955.[2] She earned her Ph.D. in 1984 from Yale University, under the supervision of Angus Macintyre, with a dissertation on the model theory of profinite groups.[3] She was Senior researcher and team director in Algebra and Geometry in the Département de mathématiques et applications de l'École Normale Supérieure.[4][5]

Her research concerned model theory and difference algebra. She was invited to give the Tarski Lectures in 2020, though the lectures were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]

Chatzidakis died on 22 January 2025, at the age of 69.[2]

Honours and awards

Chatzidakis was the 2013 winner of the Leconte Prize,[7] and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[8] She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020.[9]

References

1. Member directory, ENS/DMA, retrieved 2 July 2016.
2. "In Memoriam: Dr. Zoé Chatzidakis". Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. 23 January 2025. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
3. Zoé Chatzidakis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
4. "Mathematics at Ecole Normale Supérieure - Algebra and Geometry". www.math.ens.fr. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
5. "Gestion membre". www.math.ens.fr. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
6. "The Tarski Lectures | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley". math.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2 November 2021. Update on March 10th 2020: The event has been postponed to next year
7. Leconte Prize citation, French Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2 July 2016.
8. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2 July 2016.
9. MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved 7 June 2021.

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