Fanny Kassel

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

Fanny Kassel
Kassel at Oberwolfach, 2011.
Born1984 (age 3839)
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

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 September 2016).
  2. "Médailles d’argent et de bronze 2015", CNRS website (19 February 2015).
  3. IMU 2018, list of invited speakers Archived 25 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine (section 6).
  4. MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved 7 June 2021.


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