Carolina Araujo (mathematician)

Carolina Bhering de Araujo is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry, including birational geometry, Fano varieties, and foliations.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Carolina Araujo
Born
Carolina Bhering de Araujo

Rio de Janeiro
NationalityBrazilian
Alma materPontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (BSc)
Princeton University (PhD)
Known forAlgebraic geometry
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsInstituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
ThesisThe Variety of Tangents to Rational Curves (2004)
Doctoral advisorJános Kollár

Education and career

Araujo was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[7] Araujo did her undergraduate studies in Brazil, completing a degree in mathematics in 1998 from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.[2] She earned her Ph.D. in 2004 at Princeton University, where her dissertation, supervised by János Kollár, was titled The Variety of Tangents to Rational Curves.[3][5][7]

She is currently a researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Brazil (IMPA), and the only woman (as of 2018) on the permanent research staff at IMPA.[1] She is also a Simons Associate at The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTCP). She is the vice-president of the Committee for Women in Mathematics at the International Mathematical Union.[7]

During and after her PhD, Araujo developed techniques related to Japanese mathematician Shigefumi Mori's proposed theory of rational curves of minimal degree, which she published in 2008.[7][8]

Honors and awards

Araujo won the L'Oreal Award for Women in Science in Brazil in 2008.[6][4]

Araujo was both an organizer and an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.[3][7] She led the inaugural World Meeting for Women in Mathematics — (WM)2 in August 2018.[7] She was also one of the female mathematicians profiled in the short documentary called Journeys of Women in Mathematics, funded by the Simons Foundation.[1][7][9]

Selected bibliography
  • Carolina Araujo, Stéphane Druel and Sándor J. Kovács. Cohomological characterizations of projective spaces and hyperquadrics. Inventiones Mathematicae. 2008.
  • Carolina Araujo and Maurício Corrêa Jr. On degeneracy schemes of maps of vector bundles and applications to holomorphic foliations. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 2014.
  • Carolina Araujo and Alex Massarenti. Explicit log Fano structures on blow‐ups of projective spaces. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 2016.
  • Carolina Araujo and Cinzia Casagrande. On the Fano variety of linear spaces contained in two odd-dimensional quadrics. Geometry & Topology. 2017.
  • Carolina Araujo, Mauricio Corrêa and Alex Massarenti. Codimension one Fano distributions on Fano manifolds. Communications in Contemporary Mathematics. 2018.

References
  1. Lamb, Evelyn. "Women Mathematicians in Their Own Words". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  2. "Carolina Bhering de Araujo", Escavador (in Portuguese)
  3. Carolina Araujo, European Women in Maths, archived from the original on 2018-07-16, retrieved 2018-07-15
  4. Prêmio Para Mulheres na Ciência L'Oréal-UNESCO-ABC abre inscrições (in Portuguese), Brazilian Mathematical Society, retrieved 2018-07-15
  5. Carolina Araujo at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. "Mulheres protagonizam atividade do 'Matemática na Urca'", Comunicacao UNIRIO (in Portuguese), October 20, 2016
  7. "Carolina Araujo Is Building a Network of Women in Mathematics". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  8. Araujo, Carolina; Druel, Stéphane; Kovács, Sándor J. (2008-08-20). "Cohomological characterizations of projective spaces and hyperquadrics". Inventiones Mathematicae. 174 (2): 233. arXiv:0707.4310. Bibcode:2008InMat.174..233A. doi:10.1007/s00222-008-0130-1. ISSN 1432-1297.
  9. World Women in Mathematics, Journeys of Women in Mathematics Full Length Version, retrieved 2019-01-27
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