Meet a woman mathematician
This page offers women mathematician a meeting point providing them with a gallery of portraits of living women mathematicians. Therefore, we invite you to give your own contribution. Such a portrait/presentation could strike as more personal than the one on the official web site.
European Mathematical Society Committee on Women and Mathematics has a great pleasure to introduce
Cheryl Praeger ,Caroline Series , Lisbeth Fajstrup, Natalia Lyulko, Elizabeth Baldwin , Marjo Lipponen, Paula Steinbay, Tsou Sheung Tsun , Frances Kirwan, Marianne Freiberger, Sujatha Ramdorai, Ingrid Daubechies, Jelena Kovacevic, Viviane Baladi, Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, Christine Bernardi, Christine Bessenrodt,Antonella Grassi, Ursula Hamenstaedt, Dusa McDuff, Ragni Piene, Vera Sos,Ulrike Tillmann,Nina Uraltseva
Michele Vergne, Irene Sciriha,
Audio Interviews with some of the particapants of EWM Cambridge meeting made by Marianne Freiberger
Please feel free to introduce a woman colleague of yours by providing some biographical notes she had previously given you for this purpose (which can range from a simple anecdote to a more linear account of her life as a mathematician). Ask them to say something about themselves and/or to initiate a discussion on a particular subject. We expect the portrait/presentation of your fellow colleague to be more personal than the one on her official web site.
If you wish to contribute, as an introduction to the biographical data you wish to present, we would kindly ask you to write a few lines about yourself and tell us where you work and in what field of research, how you met this woman colleague of yours, and why you felt like introducing her on this web site.
Irene Sciriha
presently holds the post of associate professor in the math dept of the Faculty of Science at the University of Malta. She was awarded her Doctoral Ph.D. degree from Reading University, UK, where she had the privilege to work with the Euler prize winner Anthony Hilton, Nash Williams, David Stirling and Peter Rowlinson. The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications of Canada elected her fellow on the basis of her contribution to mathematical knowledge.
She produced several papers, published in prestigious mathematical journals. Her main areas of research are in spectral graph theory, Combinatorics and linear algebra. She is particularly interested in graph spectra and is currently working jointly with professionals from Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, England, Scotland and Italy on chemical structures, fullerenes, polynomial reconstruction and singular graphs. She has been invited regularly by universities abroad to deliver courses and give talks on her recent research.
For the Dept of Math, she has organised international and local conferences, seminars, workshops and Erasmus exchange programs. She was formerly convenor of EWM, chair of the gender issues committee at the UOM and editor of two professional journals.
The European Mathematical Society that holds the quadrennial European Congress of Math and awards prizes for cutting-edge innovations in math has appointed her vice-chair of the scientific committee for women. She is also Malta’s representative on The Helsinki Group of the European Commission that promotes the interests of Women Scientists in Europe.
URL: http://staff.um.edu.mt/isci1/
Comment by Irene Sciriha — April 8, 2008 @ 10:56 am