Isabelle Gallagher (born 27 October 1973) is a French mathematician. Her research concerns partial differential equations such as the

Navier–Stokes equations In physics, the Navier–Stokes equations ( ) are partial differential equations which describe the motion of viscous fluid substances, named after French engineer and physicist Claude-Louis Navier and Anglo-Irish physicist and mathematician Geo ...

wave equation The (two-way) wave equation is a second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields — as they occur in classical physics — such as mechanical waves (e.g. water waves, sound waves and seism ...

, and

Schrödinger equation The Schrödinger equation is a linear partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a quantum-mechanical system. It is a key result in quantum mechanics, and its discovery was a significant landmark in the development of th ...

, as well as harmonic analysis of the

Heisenberg group In mathematics, the Heisenberg group H, named after Werner Heisenberg, is the group of 3×3 upper triangular matrices of the form ::\begin 1 & a & c\\ 0 & 1 & b\\ 0 & 0 & 1\\ \end under the operation of matrix multiplication. Elements ...

Education and career

Gallagher was born on 27 October 1973, in Cagnes-sur-Mer. She earned her PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1998. Her dissertation, supervised by

Jean-Yves Chemin Jean-Yves Chemin (born 23 April 1959 in Rouen) is a French mathematician, specializing in nonlinear partial differential equations. Education and career Chemin studied from 1979 at the École normale supérieure de Cachan (now named the École no ...

, concerned fluid dynamics. She worked at the French

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and then, in 2004, became a professor at

Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 197 ...

Recognition

In 2008, the French Academy of Sciences awarded her the

Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet The Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet is a biennial prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences in the fields of mathematics and physical sciences since 1954. Each recipient receives 3000 euros. The prize is also awarded quadrennially in bio ...

.. She was an

invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers. Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this community, of an induction to a hall of fame." ...

in 2014. She won the

CNRS Silver Medal The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the French National Centre for Scientific Research The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherch ...

in 2016..

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gallagher, Isabelle Living people French mathematicians Women mathematicians Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni People from Cagnes-sur-Mer 1973 births Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet laureates