Biography:Ragni Piene

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Ragni Piene

Ragni Piene (born 18 January 1947, Oslo)[1] is a Norway mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry, with particular interest in enumerative results and intersection theory.[2]

Education and career

After a bachelor's degree from the University of Oslo in 1969 and a DEA from Université de Paris in 1970 [3] Piene received a doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, advised by Steven Kleiman. Her dissertation was titled Plücker Formulas.[4]

She was appointed professor at the University of Oslo in 1987.[5]

Recognition

She was elected a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1994,[2][6] and in 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society[7] and a member of the Academia Europaea.[8] We is also one of the protagonists of the Women of mathematics exhibition. [9]

Service

Since 2003 she has been a member of the executive committee of the International Mathematical Union, and was the chair of the Abel Committee from 2010–2011 to 2013–2014.[10][11]

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