Ana Cannas da Silva facts for kids
Ana M. L. G. Cannas da Silva is a talented mathematician from Portugal. She was born in 1968. Ana is an expert in a special area of math called symplectic geometry, which helps us understand shapes and spaces in a unique way. She also studies geometric topology, which is about the properties of shapes that stay the same even when they are stretched or bent. Today, she is a professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
Early Life and School
Ana Cannas da Silva was born in Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal. She went to a school called St. John de Britto College. After that, she studied mathematics at the Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon, where she earned her first degree in 1990.
Then, Ana traveled to the United States to continue her studies at the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She earned a master's degree in 1994. In 1996, she completed her Ph.D., which is the highest degree you can get in a subject. Her Ph.D. project was about "Multiplicity Formulas for Orbifolds," and her teacher was Victor Guillemin.
Her Work as a Professor
After finishing her studies, Ana Cannas da Silva worked for a short time at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1997, she went back to Portugal to teach at the Instituto Superior Técnico.
Later, in 2006, she also started teaching and doing research at Princeton University in the United States, while still keeping her job in Portugal. In 2011, she moved to Switzerland to become a professor at ETH Zurich, where she teaches and continues her important math research today.
Awards and Books
In 2009, Ana Cannas da Silva received a special award called the José Carlos Belchior Prize from her old school, St. John de Britto College. This award honored her amazing achievements as one of their former students.
Ana has also written or helped write several math books. These books share her knowledge and research with other mathematicians and students around the world:
- Geometric Models for Noncommutative Algebras (1999)
- Lectures on Symplectic Geometry (2001)
- Introduction to Symplectic and Hamiltonian Geometry (2003)
- Symplectic Geometry of Integrable Hamiltonian Systems (2003)
See also
In Spanish: Ana Cannas da Silva para niños
