Alicia Dickenstein

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Alicia Dickenstein, Oberwolfach 2007

Alicia Dickenstein (born January 17, 1955 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine mathematician.

Life

Dickenstein studied at the University of Buenos Aires and received his doctorate there in 1982 with Miguel EM Herrera . She is a professor at the University of Buenos Aires.

Dickenstein was visiting professor in France (Universities Paris VI and VII, Bordeaux, Poitiers), Sao Paulo and Hong Kong. In 1998 she was at MSRI and again as Eisenbud Professor in 2009 and as Simons Professor in 2012 . She was visiting scholar in Athens and Oslo, at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis, in Stockholm (University, Technical University), at the University of Warwick, at the Mittag-Leffler Institute and at the ICTP in Trieste.

It deals with algebraic geometry and commutative algebra , especially toric geometry , tropical geometry , hypergeometric functions , duality, solving systems of polynomial equations (computational algebraic geometry) and algebraic methods for solving equations for networks of biochemical reactions.

For 2015 to 2018 she was elected Vice President of the International Mathematical Union .

She also wrote a math book for children. Dickenstein is co-editor of the Revista de la Unión Matemática Argentina and the Journal of Symbolic Computation .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Alicia Dickenstein in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Together with David A. Cox, she was involved in the English edition of the book by Ernst Kunz , Residues and Duality for Projective Algebraic Varieties, American Mathematical Society, 2008