Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani
(USA Today, 2005)
Born	1977 Tehran, Iran
Residence	U.S.
Citizenship	Iranian[1]
Nationality	Iranian
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Princeton University Stanford University
Alma mater	Sharif University of Technology Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Curtis McMullen[1][2]
Notable awards	Blumenthal Award

Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی) (Born May^[3] 1977 Tehran) is an Iranian mathematician, Professor of Mathematics (since September 1, 2008) at Stanford University^[4]. Her research interests include Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry.^[3]

She found international recognition as a brilliant teenager after receiving gold medals in both the International Mathematical Olympiad (Hong Kong 1994) in which she scored 41 out of 42 points, ranking her 23rd jointly with five other participants, and in the International Mathematical Olympiad (Canada 1995) with a perfect score of 42 out of 42 points, ranking her 1st jointly with 14 other participants. She is the most successful ever Iranian participant in the Olympiad^[5].

Mirzakhani obtained her BSc in Mathematics (1999) from the Sharif University of Technology. She holds a PhD from Harvard University (2004), where she worked under the supervision of the Fields Medallist Curtis McMullen. She was a Clay Mathematics Institute Research Fellow and a professor at Princeton University.

Publications

• Lindenstrauss, Elon; Mirzakhani, Maryam Ergodic theory of the space of measured laminations. Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2008, no. 4, Art. ID rnm126, 49 pp.
• Mirzakhani, Maryam Growth of the number of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. Ann. of Math. (2) 168 (2008), no. 1, 97--125.
• Mirzakhani, Maryam Ergodic theory of the earthquake flow. Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2008, no. 3, Art. ID rnm116, 39 pp.
• Mirzakhani, Maryam Random hyperbolic surfaces and measured laminations. In the tradition of Ahlfors-Bers. IV, 179--198, Contemp. Math., 432, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2007.
• Mirzakhani, Maryam Simple geodesics and Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces. Invent. Math. 167 (2007), no. 1, 179--222.
• Mirzakhani, Maryam Weil-Petersson volumes and intersection theory on the moduli space of curves. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 (2007), no. 1, 1--23 (electronic).
• Mirzakhani, M. A simple proof of a theorem of Schur. Amer. Math. Monthly 105 (1998), no. 3, 260--262.
• Mirzakhani, Maryam A small non-4-choosable planar graph. Bull. Inst. Combin. Appl. 17 (1996), 15--18.
• Mahmoodian, E. S.; Mirzakhani, Maryam Decomposition of complete tripartite graphs into 5-cycles. Combinatorics advances (Tehran, 1994), 235--241, Math. Appl., 329, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht, 1995.

Awards and Honours

• Full professor of Mathematics at Stanford University at age of 31, 2008.
• AMS Blumenthal Award 2009 ^[6]
• Clay Mathematics Institute Research Fellow 2004.
• Harvard Junior Fellowship Harvard University, 2003.
• Merit fellowship Harvard University, 2003.
• IPM Fellowship The Institute for theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran, 1995-1999.
• Gold medal. International Mathematical Olympiad (Canada 1995).^[7]
• Gold medal. International Mathematical Olympiad (Hong Kong 1994).^[7]

See also

• Iranian science

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Curriculum Vitæ, Maryam Mirzakhani, Retrieved 2007-05-05.
2. ^ The Mathematics Genealogy Project, Retrieved 2007-05-05.
3. ^ ^{a b} Curriculum Vitæ, Maryam Mirzakhani (older version, at CMI), Retrieved 2007-05-05.
4. ^ Stanford Report, April 9, 2008 - Report of the President to the Board of Trustees
5. ^ Hall of fame at IMO website, Retrieved 2007-11-26.
6. ^ American Mathematical Society Retrieved 2009-01-06
7. ^ ^{a b} International Mathematical Olympiad, Maryam Mirzakhani, Retrieved 2008-06-25.

External links

• http://math.stanford.edu/directory/faculty.html
• Faculty page at Princeton (includes links to papers)
• PopSci's Fourth Annual Brilliant 10 : Maryam Mirzakhani (Popular Science 2005)
• 'Brilliant' minds honored: Maryam Mirzakhani (USA Today 2005)