Ailsa Keating
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Ailsa Keating | |
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| Born | Ailsa Macgregor Keating |
| Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Awards | Berwick Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Columbia University Institute for Advanced Study University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Symplectic properties of Milnor fibres (2014) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Seidel |
| Website | www |
Ailsa Macgregor Keating is a mathematician specialising in symplectic geometry and homological mirror symmetry.[1] She is a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge.
Keating grew up in Toulouse, France.[2] She read mathematics in Clare College, Cambridge from 2005 to 2009, earning a master's degree through Part III of the Mathematical Tripos.[3] She went on to graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing her dissertation in 2014 with the dissertation Symplectic properties of Milnor fibres supervised by Paul Seidel.[4]
She returned to Cambridge as a Junior Research Fellow in Trinity College in 2014,[3] at the same time doing postdoctoral research as a Simons Foundation Junior Fellow[5] at Columbia University and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. She became a lecturer at Cambridge in 2017[2] and was promoted to professor in 2023.[6]
