Mayuko Yamashita
Mayuko Yamashita (Japanese: 山下 真由子, born 1995[1]) is a Japanese mathematician and mathematical physicist whose research combines the areas of algebraic topology, differential cohomology, and quantum field theory. She is an associate professor at Kyoto University.
Education and career[edit]
Yamashita represented Japan in the 2013 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a silver medal.[2] She studied engineering at the University of Tokyo, earning a bachelor's degree in 2017. She earned a master's degree in mathematical sciences at the University of Tokyo in March 2019,[3] and completed a Ph.D. there in 2022. Her dissertation, Differential models for the Anderson dual to bordism theories and invertible QFT's, was supervised by Yasuyuki Kawahigashi.[4]
Meanwhile, in 2019, she became an assistant professor in the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences of Kyoto University,[3] while only 23 years old.[5] She was promoted to associate professor in 2023.[3]
Recognition[edit]
Yamashita was one of the recipients of the 2021 Takebe Katahiro Prize for Encouragement of Young Researchers of the Mathematical Society of Japan.[3][6] She received the 2022 Grand Prize in the Marie Sklodowska Curie Awards of the Japan Science and Technology Agency "for her work on mathematical applications to particle physics".[5] She was named in the Asian Scientist 100 list (2023).[7] She was a 2024 recipient of the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, associated with the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, "for contributions to mathematical physics and index theory".[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "新鋭の数学者は迷いながら突き進む 深甚なる数学の世界", 紅萠 (Kurenaimoyuru, in Japanese), Kyoto University, March 2023, retrieved 2023-09-15
- ^ "Mayuko Yamashita", Participants, International Mathematical Olympiad, retrieved 2023-09-14
- ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2023-09-14
- ^ Mayuko Yamashita at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b Osumi, Magdalena (19 May 2022), "Mayuko Yamashita, 26, wins new award for young female researchers", Japan Times, retrieved 2023-09-14
- ^ The MSJ Takebe Katahiro Prizes, Mathematical Society of Japan, retrieved 2023-09-14
- ^ THE ASIAN SCIENTIST 100_Mayuko Yamashita, Asian Scientist Magazine, 10 July 2023, retrieved 2023-09-15
- ^ "Breakthrough Prize Announces 2024 Laureates In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, And Mathematics", Breakthrough Prizes, retrieved 2023-09-14
