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Megumi Harada is a mathematician who works as a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at McMaster University, where she holds a tier-two Canada Research Chair in Equivariant Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry.
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Megumi Harada is a mathematician who works as a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at McMaster University, where she holds a tier-two Canada Research Chair in Equivariant Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry.
Research
Harada's research involves the symmetries of symplectic spaces and their connections to other areas of mathematics includingalgebraic geometry
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...
, representation theory, ''K''-theory, and algebraic combinatorics
Algebraic combinatorics is an area of mathematics that employs methods of abstract algebra, notably group theory and representation theory, in various combinatorial contexts and, conversely, applies combinatorial techniques to problems in algeb ...
.
Education and career
Dr. Harada went to high school in the United States. Harada graduated in 1996 from Harvard University, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She completed her doctorate in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, ''The Symplectic Geometry of the Gel'fand-Cetlin-Molev Basis for Representations of Sp(2n, C)'', concernedsymplectic 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 was supervised by Allen Knutson
Allen Ivar Knutson is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University.
Education
Knutson completed his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology and received a Ph.D. from the Massachusett ...
.
After postdoctoral studies at the University of Toronto, she joined the McMaster faculty in 2006.
Recognition
In 2013, Harada won the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics, funding her travel to Cornell University for research collaborations with Reyer Sjamar,Tara S. Holm
Tara Suzanne Holm is a mathematician at Cornell University specializing in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry.
Life and career
Holm graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College. Holm received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institut ...
, and Allen Knutson. She was given her Canada Research Chair in 2014. She is the 2018 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize "for her research on Newton–Okounkov bodies, Hessenberg varieties, and their relationships to symplectic geometry, combinatorics, and equivariant topology, among others".
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