Ana Cannas da Silva facts for kids
Ana M. L. G. Cannas da Silva is a talented mathematician from Portugal, born in 1968. She is an expert in special areas of math called symplectic geometry and geometric topology. These fields study shapes and spaces in a very advanced way. Today, she teaches mathematics as a professor at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
Early Life and Learning
Ana Cannas da Silva was born in Lisbon, Portugal. She went to St. John de Britto College for her early schooling. Later, she earned a degree in mathematics in 1990 from the Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon.
After that, she moved to the United States to continue her studies. She attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There, she earned a master's degree in 1994. She then completed her Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) in 1996. A Ph.D. is the highest university degree. For her Ph.D., she wrote a big research paper called a dissertation. Her dissertation was about "Multiplicity Formulas for Orbifolds." Her professor, Victor Guillemin, helped her with this work.
Her Career Journey
After finishing her Ph.D., Ana Cannas da Silva worked for a short time at the University of California, Berkeley. She was an assistant professor there. In 1997, she went back to Portugal. She became a faculty member at the Instituto Superior Técnico, where she had studied before.
In 2006, she also started working at Princeton University in the United States. She was a senior lecturer and research scholar in mathematics. She kept her job in Portugal at the same time. Then, in 2011, she left both Princeton and the Instituto Superior Técnico. She moved to Switzerland to work at ETH Zurich, where she is a professor today.
Special Awards
In 2009, Ana Cannas da Silva received a special award. The former students of St. John de Britto College gave her the José Carlos Belchior Prize. They honored her for her great achievements since graduating from their school.
Books She Has Written
Ana Cannas da Silva has written or helped write several important math books:
- Geometric Models for Noncommutative Algebras (with Alan Weinstein, 1999)
- Lectures on Symplectic Geometry (2001)
- Introduction to Symplectic and Hamiltonian Geometry (2003)
- Symplectic Geometry of Integrable Hamiltonian Systems (with Michèle Audin and Eugene Lerman, 2003)
See also
In Spanish: Ana Cannas da Silva para niños
