Nicole Berline
Nicole Berline (born 1944) is a French mathematician.
Life and work
Berline studied from 1963 to 1966 at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles and she was as an exchange student at the Moscow State University in Moscow in 1966/67. In 1967, she taught at the ENS de Jeunes filles and in 1971, she worked for the CNRS (Attachée de recherches). In 1974 she received her doctorate at the University of Paris under the supervision of Jacques Dixmier (Ideaux primitifs dans les algebres enveloppantes).[1] In 1976/77 she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1977 she became a professor at the University of Rennes 1 and she teaches at the Ecole Polytechnique since 1984.
She worked in the index theory of elliptic differential operators along the lines of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem and symplectic geometry.
She has four sons.
Publications
- With Ezra Getzler, Michèle Vergne, heat kernels and Dirac operator, principles of mathematical sciences 298, Springer Verlag 1992, 2004
References
- The original article was a machine translation of the corresponding German article.
