Noriko Yui is a professor of
mathematics
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at
Queen's University in
Kingston,
Ontario
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.
Career
A native of
Japan
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, Yui obtained her B.S. from
Tsuda College
is a private women's university based at Kodaira, Tokyo. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious higher educational institutions for women in Japan, contributing to the advancement of women in society for more than a century.
History
The u ...
, and her Ph.D. in
Mathematics
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from
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...
in 1974 under the supervision of Richard Bumby.
Known internationally, Yui has been a visiting researcher at the
Max-Planck-Institute
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (german: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of Germany, German research ins ...
in
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...
a number of times and a Bye-Fellow at
Newnham College
Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicent ...
,
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
. Her research is based in
arithmetic geometry
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with applications to
mathematical physics
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and notably
mirror symmetry
In mathematics, reflection symmetry, line symmetry, mirror symmetry, or mirror-image symmetry is symmetry with respect to a reflection. That is, a figure which does not change upon undergoing a reflection has reflectional symmetry.
In 2D ther ...
. Currently, much of her work is focused upon the modularity of
Calabi-Yau threefolds. Notably, she and
Fernando Q. Gouvêa
Fernando Quadros Gouvêa is a Brazilian number theorist and historian of mathematics who won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in 1995 for his exposition of Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
He also w ...
have shown that for
, a projective
rigid Calabi-Yau threefold defined over
, the
-function of
is the
-function of a certain modular form.
Professor Yui has been the managing editor for the journal ''Communications in Number Theory and Physics'' since its inception in 2007. She has edited a number of monographs, and she has co-authored two books.
References
External links
Notable books co-authored by Yui
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Japanese emigrants to Canada
Rutgers University alumni
Queen's University at Kingston faculty
Tsuda University alumni
21st-century Japanese mathematicians
Canadian women mathematicians
21st-century Canadian mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
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