When he built his tower, Gustave Eiffel engraved the names of 72 French scientists, all men. Recently, it has been decided to engrave the names of 72 French women scientists on the tower. Eleven mathematicians were selected, including Marie-Hélène Schwartz. One of her major works, in 1965, was the construction of characteristic classes for singular complex analytic varieties. This result was subsequently part of a conjecture by Grothendieck and Deligne, proved by Robert MacPherson. The classes are now called "Schwartz-MacPherson classes. The elementary presentation will focus as much on the life of Marie-Hélène Schwartz as on her proof of the Poincaré-Hopf Theorem for singular varieties.
That is a join work with Thuy Nguyen (UNESP, Rio Preto, Brazil) and Tadeusz Mostowski (Warsaw, Poland).
Joint with Math Physics Seminar and CTQM
Marie-Hélène Schwartz, a name on the Eiffel tower
Thu, Apr. 9 1:30pm (Math350)
Math Phys
Jean-Paul Brasselet (CNRS, Marseille)
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When he built his tower, Gustave Eiffel engraved the names of 72 French scientists, all men. Recently, it has been decided to engrave the names of 72 French women scientists on the tower. Eleven mathematicians were selected, including Marie-Hélène Schwartz. One of her major works, in 1965, was the construction of characteristic classes for singular complex analytic varieties. This result was subsequently part of a conjecture by Grothendieck and Deligne, proved by Robert MacPherson. The classes are now called "Schwartz-MacPherson classes. The elementary presentation will focus as much on the life of Marie-Hélène Schwartz as on her proof of the Poincaré-Hopf Theorem for singular varieties.
That is a join work with Thuy Nguyen (UNESP, Rio Preto, Brazil) and Tadeusz Mostowski (Warsaw, Poland).
Joint with Topology Seminar and CTQM
Marie-Hélène Schwartz, a name on the Eiffel tower Sponsored by the Meyer Fund
Marie-Hélène Schwartz, a name on the Eiffel tower