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With heartfelt words, music and a reading from the Quran, on Saturday members of the Stanford community and invited guests remembered the life of Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, who died of breast cancer in July at the age of 40.
Mirzakhani specialized in theoretical mathematics, and won the prestigious Fields Medal for her work in 2014. She is to-date the only woman to win the award, which is considered the mathematics equivalent to the Nobel prize.
People remembered Mirzakhani as being fearlessly ambitious in her work, for her brilliance in how she tackled problems and for her humility.
“It is still very hard to imagine that someone of her extraordinary energy, determination and brilliance could be taken away from us at such a young age,” said Eleny Ionel, professor and chair of the mathematics department at Stanford. “Her passion for mathematics has touched so many lives and will continue to be an inspiration for many more.”
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Mirzakhani grew up in Tehran, Iran, where she was the first girl to compete on Iran’s International Mathematical Olympiad team. She left Iran to attend graduate school at Harvard and joined Stanford’s mathematics department in 2008. She was married to Jan Vondrák and had a daughter, Anahita.
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History
Karen Uhlenbeck
Chuu-Lian Terng
Program History:
1994
Topic: Gauge Theory and the Topology of Four-Manifolds
Women undergraduate and graduate students participating in the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute summer program attended a nine-day program at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, from May 16-27, 1994. This was the first year that the program was held at the Institute, and the second year of the program (the first Mentoring Program having taken place at MSRI in Berkeley, California, in 1993). The workshop provided a mixture of lectures, seminars, working problem groups, mentoring and networking sessions and the opportunity to meet and interact with leading mathematicians. The following lectures were given: Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces (eight lectures), Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University; Gauge Field Theory (eight lectures), Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas at Austin; Closed Geodesic on Spheres, Nancy Hingston, Trenton State College; Surface Motion Due to Surface Energy Reduction, Jean Taylor, Rutgers University; Symplectic Geometry and Circle Actions, Lisa Jeffrey, Princeton University; The Geometry of Symplectic Energy, Dusa McDuff, SUNY Stony Brook; Gauge Theory and Analysis, Lesley Sib