Isabel Alicia Hubard Escalera is a Mexican mathematician in the Institute of Mathematics of 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).
Early life and education
As a child, Isabel Alicia Hubard wanted to be a bullfighter. She has said of her family, "My mother is an engineer and my father an accountant. My brother is a mathematician and my sister a physicist. I never thought that I would like math. I simply found it easy and fun, but nothing more. However, my mathematics teacher in junior high and high school, Óscar Chávez, inspired me."
Hubard Escalera began her studies in the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, where in 2001, she graduated in
Mathematics
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with a baccalaureate thesis titled ''Polyhedra colored with cyclic orders''.
It was written in the Institute of Mathematics of the
UNAM
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 ...
, where she carried out investigations related to the combinatorial properties of
discrete geometrical objects.
Her undergraduate advisor was Javier Bracho Carpizo.
In 2007, she earned a Ph.D. from
York University
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in
Canada
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, with a dissertation titled ''From geometry to groups and back: the study of highly symmetric polytopes''.
Career
Hubard Escalera investigates the study of symmetries of combinatorial objects.
She has been the organiser of the
Mexico City
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Mathematics Olympiad in Mexico City since 2013, an organization that played a prominent role in recent national competitions, achieving the first place of the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Olimpiadas Mexicanas de Matematicas (OMM), and won the basic education national competitions (OMMEB) the same years.
She is the delegate for Mexico City in the Mexican Mathematics Olympiad of the Mexican Mathematics Society.
She has also been the leader of the Mexican team at EGMO since 2014, competition in which Mexico has won two gold medals, with Isabel mentoring the girls.
Recognition
She was awarded the Kovalevskaia Fund Prize in 2010.
In 2012 she was the first Mexican mathematician to receive the L´Oréal-UNESCO-AMC Fellowship in the area of Exact Sciences for her work, titled ''Algebra, combinatorics and geometry of abstract two-orbit polytopes''.
The Fellowship is awarded to "promote the participation of women in science for advanced scientific studies in universities or other recognized Mexican institutions in the areas of exact sciences, natural sciences and engineering and technology."
She was elected to the
Mexican Academy of Sciences
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in 2022.
Selected publications
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References
External links
Combinatoria(video, 57:32)
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21st-century Mexican mathematicians
21st-century Mexican women
Mexican women mathematicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
York University alumni
National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences