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Nalini Anantharaman
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Anantharaman at the ICM 2018
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| Born | 26 February 1976 |
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| Awards | Salem Prize (2011) Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand (2011) Henri Poincaré Prize (2012) Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences (2018) Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2020) |
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| Fields | Mathematical physics |
| Thesis | Géodésiques fermées d'une surface sous contraintes homologiques (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | François Ledrappier |
Nalini Anantharaman (born 26 February 1976) is a French mathematician. She is known for her amazing work in mathematical physics. She has won many important awards, including the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012.
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About Nalini Anantharaman
Nalini Florence Anantharaman was born in Paris, France, in 1976. Both her parents were mathematicians. They were professors at the University of Orléans.
Nalini started her advanced studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1994. She earned her PhD in Paris in 2000. Her studies were at Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Her advisor was François Ledrappier.
She became a full professor at the University of Paris-Sud in 2009. Before that, she spent a year at the University of California in Berkeley. From January to June 2013, she worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Today, she is a professor at Université de Strasbourg.
Her Amazing Awards and Achievements
Nalini Anantharaman has received many important awards for her work.
Henri Poincaré Prize
In 2012, she won the Henri Poincaré Prize. This award is for great achievements in mathematical physics. She shared the prize with three other famous scientists. Nalini was honored for her work in "quantum chaos" and "dynamical systems." This includes her big step forward in understanding "quantum unique ergodicity."
- Quantum Chaos: This field studies how quantum systems behave when their classical (non-quantum) versions are chaotic. Imagine a billiard ball bouncing on a table. If the table is shaped in a complex way, the ball's path can be very unpredictable. Quantum chaos looks at what happens when tiny particles behave like this.
- Dynamical Systems: This is about things that change over time. Think of how planets move around the sun, or how populations grow. Mathematicians use rules to describe these changes.
- Quantum Unique Ergodicity: This is a complex idea. It's about how quantum particles spread out in a space over time. Nalini's work helped show that in some cases, these particles spread out very evenly.
Other Important Awards
In 2011, Nalini won the Salem Prize. This prize is given for work related to Fourier Series. Fourier Series are special mathematical tools used to break down complex waves or signals into simpler ones. She also received the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand from the French Academy of Sciences in the same year.
In 2015, Nalini Anantharaman was chosen to be a member of the Academia Europaea. This is a group of top scientists and scholars from across Europe. She was also a main speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians. This is a huge meeting where mathematicians from all over the world share their latest discoveries.
In 2018, she won the Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences. This is one of the highest awards for science in India. She received it for her work on "Quantum Chaos." In 2020, she was given the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics.
See also
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