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Yael Karshon

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Yael Karshon
Karshon in 2000
Born1964
NationalityIsraeli, Canadian
Alma materHarvard University
Known forSymplectic geometry
AwardsKrieger–Nelson Prize (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto Mississauga, Tel Aviv University
Doctoral advisorShlomo Sternberg

Yael Karshon (born 1964)[1] is an Israeli and Canadian mathematician who has been described as "one of Canada's leading experts in symplectic geometry".[2] She works as a professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga [3] and Tel Aviv University [4].

Education and career

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Karshon took part in the 1982 International Mathematical Olympiad, on the Israeli team.[5] She earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University under the supervision of Shlomo Sternberg.[2][6]

After working as a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then earning tenure at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she moved to the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2002.[2]

Selected publications

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Karshon is the author of the monographs Periodic Hamiltonian flows on four dimensional manifolds (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 672, 1999), which completely classified the Hamiltonian actions of the circle group on four-dimensional compact manifolds.[7] With Viktor Ginzburg and Victor Guillemin, she also wrote Moment maps, cobordisms, and Hamiltonian group actions (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 98, American Mathematical Society, 2002), which surveys "symplectic geometry in the context of equivariant cobordism".[8]

Awards and honours

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Karshon won the Krieger–Nelson Prize in 2008.[2]

Personal

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Karshon is from Israel, and lived in the US for ten years, eventually becoming a permanent resident. She took Canadian citizenship in 2011. From her marriage to mathematician Dror Bar-Natan[9] she has two sons.

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from German national library catalog entry, retrieved 2018-11-28.
  2. ^ a b c d Three honoured for exceptional research achievements, Canadian Mathematical Society, April 10, 2008; retrieved 2017-06-18
  3. ^ Faculty profile, University of Toronto, retrieved 2017-06-18
  4. ^ Faculty profile, Tel Aviv University
  5. ^ International Mathematical Olympiad participant: Yael Karshon, retrieved 2017-06-18
  6. ^ Yael Karshon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ^ Review of Periodic Hamiltonian flows on four-dimensional manifolds by Christopher T. Woodward (2000), MR1612833
  8. ^ Review of Moment maps, cobordisms, and Hamiltonian group actions by Tara S. Holm (2003), MR1929136
  9. ^ Affidavit of Dror Bar-Natan, Court File No. 06-CV-301832PD3, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, September 2012; retrieved 2017-06-18 (concerning whether swearing allegiance to the queen should be necessary for Canadian citizenship)
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