Ilka Agricola

Ilka Agricola (born August 8, 1973 in The Hague ) is a German mathematician who deals with differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics .

Live and act

Agricola studied physics at the Technical University of Munich and the LMU Munich from 1991 to 1996. After a guest stay at Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA), she went to Humboldt University in Berlin at the end of 1997 , where she did her doctorate in mathematics under Thomas Friedrich in 2000 . From 2003 to 2008 she headed a junior research group funded by the Volkswagen Foundation at Humboldt University on “Special Geometries in Mathematical Physics”. From 2004 to 2008 she was project manager in the priority program 1096 String Theory of the German Research Foundation and in the Collaborative Research Center 647 Space, Time, Matter . Agricola completed his habilitation in mathematics at the University of Greifswald in 2004 . In 2008 she was appointed W3 professor at the Philipps University of Marburg . There she was dean of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from 2014 to 2018. In 2021/22 she is President of the German Mathematicians Association.

In 2003 Ilka Agricola received the Medal of Honor from Charles University in Prague . For 2016 she was awarded the Ars legendi Faculty Prize for Mathematics.

Ilka Agricola was a visiting scholar a. a. at the Max Planck Institutes in Leipzig and Potsdam (2001/02), at the Seoul National University (2004 and 2006) and at the University of Córdoba (2010).

Fonts

Books:

• with Thomas Friedrich : Global Analysis. Differential forms in analysis, geometry and physics. Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-528-03154-9 .
  English edition: Global analysis. Differential forms in analysis, geometry and physics. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI 2002, ISBN 0-8218-2951-3 .
  2nd German edition: Vektoranalysis. Differential forms in analysis, geometry and physics. Vieweg + Teubner, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8348-1016-8 .
• with Thomas Friedrich: Elementary Geometry. Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-528-03221-9 . 4th edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-8348-1385-5 .
  English edition: Elementary geometry. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI 2008, ISBN 978-0-8218-4347-5 .

Items:

• Connexions sur les spaces homogenes naturellement reductifs et leurs operateurs de Dirac. In: CR Acad. Sci. Paris. Ser. I, 335, 2002, pp. 43-46.
• Connections naturally on reductive spaces, their Dirac operator and homogeneous models in string theory. In: Comm. Math. Phys. 232, 2003, pp. 535-563.
• with Roe Goodman : The algebra of K-invariant vector fields on a symmetric space G / K. In: Michigan Journ. Math. 51, 2003, pp. 607-630.
• with Thomas Friedrich: On the holonomy of connections with skew-symmetric torsion. In: Math. Ann. 328, 2004, pp. 711-748.
• Old and New on the exceptional Lie group . ${\displaystyle G_{2}}$In: Notices of the AMS. 55, 2008, pp. 922-929 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ilka Agricola in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ilka Agricola's homepage at the University of Marburg
• From the monkey saddle to the cork's beak, article on the mathematical model collection of the University of Marburg, expanded by Ilka Agricola, on op-marburg.de
• Ilka Agricola in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists
• Author profile Ilka Agricola in the database zbMATH