Matilde Marcolli

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::summary Italian mathematician and physicist ::

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Field	Value
name	Matilde Marcolli
image	Matilde Marcolli2010.jpg
caption	Marcolli in 2010 at Oberwolfach
birth_date
birth_place	Como
nationality	Italy, United States
fields	Mathematics
workplaces	University of Bonn, Florida State University, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Caltech, University of Toronto, Perimeter Institute
alma_mater	University of Milan, University of Chicago
doctoral_advisor	Melvin Rothenberg
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| name = Matilde Marcolli | image = Matilde Marcolli2010.jpg | image_size = | caption = Marcolli in 2010 at Oberwolfach | birth_date = | birth_place = Como | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Italy, United States | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = University of Bonn, Florida State University, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Caltech, University of Toronto, Perimeter Institute | alma_mater = University of Milan, University of Chicago | doctoral_advisor = Melvin Rothenberg | doctoral_students = | known_for = | awards = Matilde Marcolli is an Italian-American mathematical physicist. She won the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and has authored and edited numerous books. She is currently the Robert F. Christy Professor of Mathematics and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.

Career

Marcolli obtained her Laurea in Physics in 1993 summa cum laude from the University of Milan under the supervision of Renzo Piccinini, with a thesis on Classes of self equivalences of fibre bundles. She moved to the USA in 1994, where she obtained a master's degree (1994) and a PhD (1997) in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, under the supervision of Melvin Rothenberg, with a thesis on Three dimensional aspects of Seiberg-Witten Gauge Theory. Between 1997 and 2000 she worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a C.L.E. Moore instructor in the Department of Mathematics.

Between 2000 and 2010 she held a C3 position (German equivalent of associate professor) at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and held an associate professor position (courtesy) at Florida State University in Tallahassee. She also held an honorary professorship at the University of Bonn. From 2008 to 2017 she was a full professor of Mathematics in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy of the California Institute of Technology. From 2018 to 2020 she was a professor in the mathematics department of the University of Toronto and a member of the Perimeter Institute. She is currently the Robert F. Christy Professor of Mathematics and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.

She held visiting positions at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm, the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California.

Research

Marcolli's research work has covered different areas of mathematics and theoretical physics: gauge theory and low-dimensional topology, algebraic-geometric structures in quantum field theory, noncommutative geometry with applications to number theory and to physics models, especially related to particle physics, quantum gravity and cosmology, and to the quantum Hall effect. She also worked in linguistics.

She has collaborated with several other mathematicians, physicists, and linguists, among them Yuri I. Manin, Alain Connes, Michael Atiyah, Roger Penrose, Noam Chomsky. Twenty six graduate students obtained their PhD under her supervision between 2006 and 2022.

She also wrote articles about philosophy, theory about art and anarchism. She also wrote about anarcho-transhumanism.

Honors and awards

In 2001 she obtained the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and in 2002 the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She was a plenary speaker in the 2008 European Congress of Mathematics in Amsterdam (with a talk on Renormalization, Galois symmetries and motives) and an invited speaker of the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (with a talk on Noncommutative Geometry and Arithmetic).

Books authored

• Reviews of Lumen Naturae:

Books edited

References

;Citations

;Sources

• M.Marcolli, Motivic renormalization and singularities to appear in "Quanta of Maths, in honor of Alain Connes" Clay Mathematical Institute, 2010.
• A.Connes, M. Marcolli, Quantum Statistical Mechanics of Q-lattices in "Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics, and Geometry, I" pp. 269–350, Springer Verlag, 2006.

References

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2. "Data sheet".
3. "Three new appointments bolster mathematics, cosmology at Perimeter | Perimeter Institute".
4. "Matilde Marcolli".
5. (2001). "Equivariant Seiberg-Witten Floer homology". Communications in Analysis and Geometry.
6. (2002). "Seiberg–Witten and Casson–Walker Invariants for Rational Homology 3-Spheres". Geometriae Dedicata.
7. (2004). "Renormalization and motivic Galois theory". International Mathematics Research Notices.
8. (2007). "Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics, and Geometry II". Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
9. (2010). "Quantum Statistical Mechanics, L-series and Anabelian Geometry".
10. (2010-03-23). "Error-Correcting Codes and Phase Transitions". Mathematics in Computer Science.
11. (2007). "Gravity and the standard model with neutrino mixing". Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics.
12. (2010-09-22). "Spin foams and noncommutative geometry". Classical and Quantum Gravity.
13. (2010). "Early universe models from noncommutative geometry". Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics.
14. (2011). "The spectral action and cosmic topology". Commun. Math. Phys..
15. (November 1999). "Twisted Index Theory on Good Orbifolds, I: Noncommutative Bloch Theory". Communications in Contemporary Mathematics.
16. (2001-02-01). "Twisted Index Theory on Good Orbifolds, II: fractional Quantum Numbers". [[Communications in Mathematical Physics]].
17. "Matilde Marcolli: Collaborators and Students".
18. "Matilde Marcolli - the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
19. "Matilde Marcolli".
20. Matilde Marcolli. (2020). "Lumen Naturae: Visions of the Abstract in Art and Mathematics". MIT Press.
21. admin. (2022-02-28). "A Bridge & a Sunset".
22. "DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis 2001".
23. "Mathmatecs people".
24. "Guide to Amsterdam 5th European Mathematical Congress".
25. "International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, Hyderabad".

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