Ina Kersten
Ina Kersten (born July 6, 1946 in Hamburg ) is a German mathematician who deals with algebra , including linear algebraic groups and quadratic forms.
Scientific career
Kersten studied at the University of Hamburg , where she graduated in 1974 and did her doctorate in 1977 with Ernst Witt ( p-algebras on semi-local rings ). She then worked at the University of Regensburg (habilitation 1983) as an assistant to Günter Tamme , at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , at the University of Hamburg, and at the University of Bielefeld (professor). She had stays as a visiting researcher at Queens University in Kingston / Canada (1984, 1987) and as a visiting professor at Cornell University in Ithaca / USA (1992).
She has been a professor at the University of Göttingen since 1998, and in 2003 she became dean of the mathematics department. She is co-founder and, since 2006, spokesperson of the GAUSS doctoral program (Georg August University School of Science). At the university she also organizes the Emmy Noether guest lectures.
Ina Kersten was the first woman in this position to hold this position from 1995 to 1997 and vice-president of the German Mathematicians Association from 1998 to 1999 , of which she was a member from 1991 to 1999. From 2001 to 2007 Kersten was the spokeswoman for the “Conference of Mathematical Departments in Germany”.
Fonts
Together with Günter Harder , Kersten was editor of Ernst Witt's Collected Works in 1998 .
- Brewer groups of bodies, Vieweg 1990
- Brewer groups, Universitätsdrucke Göttingen 2007
Awards
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (October 5, 1995)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ina Kersten in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage in Göttingen
- Thomas von Randow: Aesthetics of Algebra , portrait of Ina Kersten in Die Zeit , January 20, 1995 (issue 04/1995)
Individual evidence
- ^ Curriculum vitae in Kersten's dissertation p-algebras on semi-local rings , Hamburg 1977, snippet at Google Buch
- ↑ Ina Kersten in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Message in the Regensburger Universitätszeitung ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kersten, Ina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |