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Dusa McDuff FRS CorrFRSE (born 18 October 1945) is an English mathematician who works on symplectic geometry. She was the first recipient of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, [4] was a Noether Lecturer, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is currently the Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College. [5]
Dusa McDuff is the Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College. At Barnard, she currently teaches "Calculus I", "Perspectives in Mathematics" and courses in geometry and topology.
Dusa McDuff is a Kimmel Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is a leading expert in symplectic geometry and Floer theory, and has written several books and papers on these topics.
Dusa McDuff is a distinguished mathematician and professor emerita at SUNY Stony Brook and Barnard College. She has received many honors and awards, including the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize, the Steele Prize, and the London Mathematical Society Hardy Lectureship.
McDuff is best known for her work in the geometry of multi-dimensional structures. Her work in symplectic geometry, functional analysis and diffeomorphism groups has provided understanding and unexpected results in a whole range of areas of great importance.
Don't tell Dusa McDuff that girls can't "do" math -- the 1991 winner of the Ruth Lyttle Satter prize and Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences knew at quite an early age that she would one day be a mathematician.
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My Ph.D. in pure mathematics is from Cambridge. After working at York and Warwick universities, I came to Stony Brook University, NY in 1978 working my way up to Distinguished Professor. I moved to Barnard College in 2007, where I am now the Helen Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics.