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Dusa McDuff
Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics
Dusa McDuff is the Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College. At Barnard, she teaches "Introduction to Higher Mathematics" and courses in geometry and topology.
Professor McDuff gained her early teaching experience at the University of York (U.K.), the University of Warwick (U.K.) and MIT. In 1978, she joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at SUNY Stony Brook, where she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor in 1998.
Professor McDuff has honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh and the University of York. She is a fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and an honorary fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.
She has received the Satter Prize from the American Mathematical Society and the Outstanding Woman Scientist Award from AWIS (Association for Women in Science).
Professor McDuff's service to the mathematical community has been extensive. She currently serves on the MSRI Board of Trustees, the Sloan Fellowship Committee for Mathematics, and the Selection Committee for the Abel Prize.
Selected Publications
"Groupoids, Branched Manifolds, and Multisections," Journal of Symplectic Geometry 4 (2007)
"Topological Properties of Hamiltonian Circle Actions" (with S. Tolman), Internat. Math. Res. Papers (2006)
"Floer Theory and Low Dimensional Topology," Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (2006)
"Symplectomorphism Groups and Quantum Cohomology," in The Unity of Mathematics, in honor of the 90th birthday of I. M. Gelfand (Boston: Birkhauser, 2005)
"Enlarging the Hamiltonian Group," Journal of Symplectic Topology 3 (2005)
J-holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology (with D. Salamon) (Colloq. Publications AMS, 2004)
"Geometric Variants of the Hofer Norm," Journal of Symplectic Geometry 1 (2002)
"A Glimpse into Symplectic Geometry," in Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives (Providence: AMS, 2000)
"The Virtual Moduli Cycle," Amer. Math. Soc Transl. 196 (1999)
Introduction to Symplectic Topology , 2nd edition, with D. Salamon (Oxford University Press, 1998)
J-holomorphic Curves and Quantum Cohomology, with D. Salamon (University Lecture Series, American Math. Society, 1994)
"Elliptic Methods in Symplectic Geometry," Bull. A.M.S. 23 (1990)
"The Moment Map for Circle Actions on Symplectic Manifolds," J. Geom. and Physics 5 (1988)
"Examples of Symplectic Structures," Invent. Math. 89 (1987)
"On the Classifying Spaces of Discrete Monoids," Topology 18 (1979)
"Configuration Spaces of Positive and Negative Particles," Topology 14 (1975)
"A Countable Infinity of II1-factors," Ann. Math. 90 (1969)
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EDUCATION:
B.S., University of Edinburgh
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Symplectic geometry and topology