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Wiesława Krystyna Nizioł (pronounced ) is a Polish mathematician, director of research at
CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
, based at Institut mathématique de Jussieu. Her research concerns
arithmetic geometry In mathematics, arithmetic geometry is roughly the application of techniques from algebraic geometry to problems in number theory. Arithmetic geometry is centered around Diophantine geometry, the study of rational points of algebraic varieties. ...
, and in particular ''p''-adic Hodge theory,
Galois representation In mathematics, a Galois module is a ''G''-module, with ''G'' being the Galois group of some extension of fields. The term Galois representation is frequently used when the ''G''-module is a vector space over a field or a free module over a ring ...
s, and ''p''-adic cohomology.


Education and career

Nizioł earned an M.S. in
computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...
from the
University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...
in 1984. She was employed as an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw from 1984 to 1988. After beginning doctoral studies in computer science at
Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...
under the supervision of
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, she followed him to Princeton University, but she switched to mathematics,Wiesława Nizioł Curriculum Vitae
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and received her Ph.D. in 1991 from
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...
under the supervision of
Gerd Faltings Gerd Faltings (; born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. Education From 1972 to 1978, Faltings studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. Interrupted by 15 months of obligatory ...
. Thereafter she held temporary positions at
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, the
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and
University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...
before joining the
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in 1996. More recently, she has spent time at the
Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Ein ...
in 2010 as a visitor and in 2017 and 2024 as a member as well as at the
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), formerly the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), is an independent nonprofit mathematical research institution on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Califor ...
in 2014, 2018 and 2023 as part of programs on perfectoid spaces, the homological conjectures and
Euler systems Leonhard Euler ( ; ; ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential ...
, respectively. She moved to France in 2012 as a directrice de recherches at
CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
, first in
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and, since 2020 at Institut mathématique de Jussieu in Paris.


Mathematical work

She studies the cohomology of p-adic varieties. Her contributions include: * Comparison theorems, via motivic methods, between de Rham and p-adic étale cohomologies of algebraic varieties over p-adic fields (proofs of the conjectures C_ and C_ of Fontaine). * A definition for p-adic algebraic varieties, of a p-adic analog (the syntomic cohomology) of the classical Deligne cohomology for algebraic varieties over the real numbers. * A comparison theorem, via syntomic methods, for p-adic analytic varieties, and the computation of the p-adic étale cohomology of various p-adic symmetric spaces with applications to the p-adic local
Langlands correspondence In mathematics, the Langlands program is a set of conjectures about connections between number theory, the theory of automorphic forms, and geometry. It was proposed by . It seeks to relate the structure of Galois groups in algebraic number theo ...
.


Recognition

She was an Invited Speaker at the 2006
International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...
, with a talk entitled "''p''-adic motivic cohomology in arithmetic". She was elected a member of
Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...
in 2021, and as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Niziol, Wieslawa Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Polish women mathematicians 20th-century Polish mathematicians 21st-century Polish mathematicians University of Warsaw alumni Princeton University alumni University of Utah faculty Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Arithmetic geometers Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research Fellows of the American Mathematical Society