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Sophie Morel

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Sophie Morel
Born1979 (age 44–45)
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure
Université Paris-Sud
AwardsEMS Prize (2012)
AWM-Microsoft Research Prize (2014)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsÉcole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Princeton University
Harvard University
Doctoral advisorGérard Laumon[2]

Sophie Morel (born 1979)[3] is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory. She is a CNRS directrice de recherches in mathematics at École normale supérieure de Lyon. In 2012 she received one of the ten prizes of the European Mathematical Society.

Biography

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In a 2011 interview, Morel credited a math magazine bought while in 9th grade as well as summer camps for developing her interest in mathematics[4] and in a 2012 interview she mentioned being a keen distance runner.[5] She studied in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in 1999.[6] In 2005 she finished her Ph.D. at the University of Paris-Sud, under the supervision of Gérard Laumon.[5][6] Her thesis made progress on the Langlands program.[5]

After her Ph.D., she was a Clay Research Fellow between 2005 and 2011. In December 2009 she was appointed as a professor of mathematics at Harvard University,[7] becoming the first woman in mathematics to be tenured there.[8] From 2012 to 2020, she was a professor of mathematics in Princeton University, where she was also the Henry Burchard Fine Professor in 2015.[9] Morel moved to École Normale supérieure de Lyon as an CNRS directrice de recherches in mathematics in 2020.

Recognition

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She gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, in the "Number Theory" section.[10] In 2012 she received one of the prestigious European Mathematical Society Prize for young researchers, and in May 2013 she was announced as the winner of the inaugural 2014 AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory.[11][6]

Selected publications

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  • Morel, Sophie (2006). "Complexes pondérés sur les compactifications de Baily-Borel: Le cas des variétés de Siegel". Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 21 (1): 23–61. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-06-00538-8.
  • Morel, Sophie (2010). On the Cohomology of Certain Non-Compact Shimura Varieties. Annals of Mathematics Studies. Vol. 173. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1400835393.
  • Morel, Sophie (2011). "Cohomologie d'intersection des variétés modulaires de Siegel, suite". Compositio Mathematica. 147 (6): 1671–1740. arXiv:1806.09910. doi:10.1112/S0010437X11005409. ISSN 0010-437X.
  • Morel, Sophie; Suh, Junecue (2019). "The standard sign conjecture on algebraic cycles: The case of Shimura varieties". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal). 2019 (748): 139–151. arXiv:1408.0461. doi:10.1515/crelle-2016-0048. ISSN 0075-4102.

References

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  1. ^ "AWM Awards Inaugural Research Prizes" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the AMS, 60 (7): 930, August 2013.
  2. ^ Sophie Morel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2021-03-24
  4. ^ "An Interview with Sophie Morel, Part 1" (PDF), Girls' Angle Bulletin, 5 (1): 3–6, October 2011
  5. ^ a b c "Interview: Sophie Morel, Harvard University", EWM Newsletter, 21, European Women in Mathematics: 8–9, November 6, 2012
  6. ^ a b c "Sophie Morel". École normale supérieure (in French). Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  7. ^ Bradt, Steve (January 14, 2010), "Mathematician gains dual appointments Sophie Morel will join FAS, Radcliffe Institute", Harvard Gazette.
  8. ^ Lewin, Tamar (March 12, 2010), "Women Making Gains on Faculty at Harvard", The New York Times.
  9. ^ Office of Communications. "Faculty chosen for endowed professorships". Princeton University. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  10. ^ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians.
  11. ^ "Prof. Sophie Morel wins inaugural AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory". Princeton University Mathematics Department.
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