Ana M. L. G. Cannas da Silva (born 1968) is a Portuguese mathematician specializing in

symplectic geometry Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed differential form, closed, nondegenerate form, nondegenerate different ...

and

geometric topology In mathematics, geometric topology is the study of manifolds and maps between them, particularly embeddings of one manifold into another. History Geometric topology as an area distinct from algebraic topology may be said to have originated i ...

. She works in Switzerland as an adjunct professor in mathematics at

ETH Zurich (colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , ac ...

Early life and education

Cannas was born in

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

. After studying at St. John de Britto College, she earned a licenciatura in mathematics in 1990 from the Instituto Superior Técnico in the

University of Lisbon The University of Lisbon (ULisboa; pt, Universidade de Lisboa, ) is a public research university in Lisbon, and the largest university in Portugal. It was founded in 2013, from the merger of two previous public universities located in Lisbon, th ...

. She then went to the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

for graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1994 and completing her Ph.D. in 1996. Her dissertation, ''Multiplicity Formulas for Orbifolds'', was supervised by Victor Guillemin.

Career

After a temporary position as Morrey Assistant Professor at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, Cannas returned to the Instituto Superior Técnico as a faculty member in 1997. She took a second position as a senior lecturer and research scholar in mathematics at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

in 2006, keeping at the same time her position at the Instituto Superior Técnico. In 2011 she moved from Princeton and the Instituto Superior Técnico to ETH Zurich.

Recognition

In 2009, the alumni of St. John de Britto College awarded Cannas their José Carlos Belchior Prize in honor of her achievements as an alumna of the school.

Books

Cannas is the author or coauthor of: *''Geometric Models for Noncommutative Algebras'' (with

Alan Weinstein Alan David Weinstein (17 June, 1943, New York City) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, working in the field of differential geometry, and especially in Poisson geometry. Education and career Weinstein ob ...

, Amer. Math. Soc., 1999) *''Lectures on Symplectic Geometry'' (Springer, 2001) *''Introduction to Symplectic and Hamiltonian Geometry'' (Publ. Mat. IMPA, 2003) *''Symplectic Geometry of Integrable Hamiltonian Systems'' (with

Michèle Audin Michèle Audin (Algiers, 3 January, 1954) is a French mathematician, writer, and a former professor. She has worked as a professor at the University of Geneva, the University of Paris-Saclay and most recently at the University of Strasbourg, where ...

and Eugene Lerman, Birkhäuser 2003)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cannas da Silva, Ana 1968 births Living people 20th-century Portuguese mathematicians Portuguese women scientists 21st-century Portuguese mathematicians Swiss women mathematicians University of Lisbon alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Academic staff of the University of Lisbon Princeton University faculty Academic staff of ETH Zurich