Irena Vassileva Peeva is a professor of mathematics at

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, specializing in

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. She disproved the Eisenbud–Goto regularity conjecture jointly with Jason McCullough.

Education and career

Peeva did her graduate studies at

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, earning a Ph.D. in 1995 under the supervision of David Eisenbud with a thesis entitled ''Free Resolutions''. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the

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and a

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at the

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before joining the Cornell Department of Mathematics faculty in 1998. Peeva is an editor of the Transactions of AMS.

Books

Peeva is the author of: * ''Graded Syzygies'' (Springer, 2011). * ''Minimal Free Resolutions over Complete Intersections'' (with David Eisenbud, Springer, 2016).

Recognition

In 2014 Peeva was elected as a

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of the

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"for contributions to commutative algebra and its applications." In 2019/2020 and in 2012/2013 Peeva was a Simons Foundation Fellow. During 1999-2001 she was a Sloan Foundation Fellow and was a Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellow in 1994/1995.

References

External links

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