Carolina Araujo (mathematician)
Brazilian mathematician
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Carolina Bhering de Araujo (born in 1976) is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry, including birational geometry, Fano varieties, and foliations.[1][2][3][4][5] Other than her research in mathematics, she is also known for her efforts for improving the conditions for women mathematicians.
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Princeton University (PhD)
Carolina Araujo | |
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Araujo at the ICM 2018 | |
| Born | Carolina Bhering de Araujo |
| Education | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (BSc) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Known for | Algebraic geometry |
| Awards | ICTP Ramanujan Prize (2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada |
| Thesis | The Variety of Tangents to Rational Curves (2004) |
| János Kollár | |
Education and career
Araujo was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[6] She did her undergraduate studies in Brazil, completing a degree in mathematics in 1998 from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.[2] She earned her PhD in 2004 at Princeton University, where her dissertation, supervised by János Kollár, was titled The Variety of Tangents to Rational Curves.[3][4][6]
She is currently a researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Brazil (IMPA), and the only woman (as of 2018) on the permanent research staff at IMPA.[1] She is also a Simons Associate at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). She is the vice-president of the Committee for Women in Mathematics at the International Mathematical Union.[6]
During and after her PhD, Araujo developed techniques related to Japanese mathematician Shigefumi Mori's proposed theory of rational curves of minimal degree, which she published in 2008.[6][A]
Recognition
Araujo won the L'Oreal Award for Women in Science in Brazil in 2008.[5][7]
Araujo was both an organizer and an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.[3][6] She led the inaugural World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)2 in August 2018.[6] She was also one of the female mathematicians profiled in the short documentary called Journeys of Women in Mathematics, funded by the Simons Foundation.[1][6][8]
Araujo was awarded the 2020 Ramanujan Prize from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.[9]
She is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the Association of Women in Mathematics.[10]
Selected bibliography
| A. | Araujo, Carolina; Druel, Stéphane; Kovács, Sándor J. (2008), "Cohomological characterizations of projective spaces and hyperquadrics", Inventiones Mathematicae, 174 (2): 233–253, arXiv:0707.4310, Bibcode:2008InMat.174..233A, doi:10.1007/s00222-008-0130-1 |
| B. | Araujo, Carolina; Corrêa, Maurício (2013), "On degeneracy schemes of maps of vector bundles and applications to holomorphic foliations", Mathematische Zeitschrift, 276 (1–2): 505–515, arXiv:1207.5009, doi:10.1007/s00209-013-1210-5 |
| C. | Araujo, Carolina; Massarenti, Alex (2016), "Explicit log Fano structures on blow-ups of projective spaces", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 113 (4): 445–473, arXiv:1505.02460, doi:10.1112/plms/pdw034 |
| D. | Araujo, Carolina; Casagrande, Cinzia (2017), "On the Fano variety of linear spaces contained in two odd-dimensional quadrics", Geometry & Topology, 21 (5): 3009–3045, arXiv:1602.02372, doi:10.2140/gt.2017.21.3009, ISSN 1364-0380 |
| E. | Araujo, Carolina; Corrêa, Mauricio; Massarenti, Alex (2018), "Codimension one Fano distributions on Fano manifolds", Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, 20 (5): 1750058, arXiv:1702.04751, doi:10.1142/s0219199717500584 |