Déborah Oliveros Braniff is a Mexican mathematician whose research interests include
discrete geometry,
combinatorics
Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many appl ...
, and
convex geometry, including the geometry of
bodies of constant width and related topics.
Education and career
After earning an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...
(UNAM) in 1992, and earning a master's degree in 1994 under the mentorship of
Mónica Clapp
Mónica Alicia Clapp Jiménez Labora is a mathematician at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) known for her work in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology.
Life and work
Clapp was born in Mexico City. S ...
, Oliveros continued at UNAM for graduate study in mathematics, with doctoral research on an unsolved question of
Stanislaw Ulam
Stanisław Marcin Ulam (; 13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish-American scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapon ...
concerning the
buoyancy of floating convex bodies. Her 1997 dissertation on the topic, ''Los volantines : sistemas dinamicos asociados al problema de la flotacion de los cuerpos'', was jointly supervised by Luis Montejano and Javier Bracho.
She became a professor at UNAM in 1996, but left in 1999 for postdoctoral research at the
University of Calgary in Canada. She became a professor there from 2001 to 2005, when she returned to a professorship at UNAM. She became one of the founders of the branch of the UNAM Institute of Mathematics at the UNAM Juriquilla campus, and directed the institute for 2015–2016. She also holds an affiliation with the Faculty of Engineering of the
Autonomous University of Queretaro
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.
Book
Oliveros is a coauthor with Horst Martini and Luis Montejano of the book ''Bodies of Constant Width: An Introduction to Convex Geometry with Applications'' (Birkhäuser, 2019).
Recognition
UNAM gave Oliveros the "Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" award in 2014. She is a member of the
Mexican Academy of Sciences.
References
External links
Home page*
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mexican mathematicians
Mexican women mathematicians
Combinatorialists
Geometers
National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
Academic staff of the University of Calgary
Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences