Jana Rodriguez Hertz (; born 10 February 1977), is an Argentine and Uruguayan mathematician, professor, and researcher.

Biography

María Alejandra Rodriguez Hertz Frugoni was born in

Rosario, Santa Fe Rosario () is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous city in the country, and is also the most p ...

, Argentina, February 11, 1970. She is the daughter of Mariana Frugoni and Adolfo Rodriguez Hertz. Jana is the oldest of five siblings, one of whom, Federico is also a mathematician. Rodriguez Hertz studied mathematics at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura of the

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, Rosario, Argentina. She studied one year at the

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(IMPA) in

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, Brazil. Since 1994, Rodriguez Hertz has been based in Uruguay. She earned a doctorate from the

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, Uruguay, in 1999. Rodriguez Hertz works on

dynamical system In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a Function (mathematics), function describes the time dependence of a Point (geometry), point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a ...

s and

ergodic theory Ergodic theory (Greek: ' "work", ' "way") is a branch of mathematics that studies statistical properties of deterministic dynamical systems; it is the study of ergodicity. In this context, statistical properties means properties which are expres ...

. She is a professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of the Republic. She is the first and only woman with a Grade 5 in mathematics in Uruguay. Since 2011, Rodriguez Hertz has been involved in the Uruguayan educational debate. She has participated in numerous interviews, public events and conferences on the subject. She has developed a critical point of view on the educational budget,

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tests, teaching career development, and other topics. Her particular point of view made her a benchmark of public opinion on the issues. She has been a columnist in different media, highlighting her participation in 2014 in the "La Tertulia" episode of the program ''En Perspectiva'' by Emiliano Cotelo on Radio El Espectador, as well as the "Jana y sus hermanas" and the "Suena Tremendo" episodes on the same radio station. She is also the author of the blog, "¿Y por qué no?". In 2016, Rodriguez Hertz was elected a Regional Vice President, Latin America & the Caribbean, of the

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for the period of 2016–20. Her husband is Raúl Ures; they are the parents of two children.

Awards and honours

* 1992, Premio Jóvenes Notables, Fundación Bolsa de Comercio de

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. * 1999, Investigadora Grado 3, PEDECIBA Matemática. * 2004, Premio Fondo Nacional de Investigadores, CONICYT. * 2009, Investigadora Nivel II, Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, SNI, ANII. * 2013, Investigadora de Primer Nivel, Grado 5, Programa de Desarrollo de las Ciencias Básicas (PEDECIBA).

References

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