Vivien Kirk is a New Zealand mathematician who studies dynamical systems. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Auckland, where she also serves as associate dean,[2] and was president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society for 2017–2019.[3]
Vivien Kirk | |
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.jpg) Vivien Kirk in 1990 | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Auckland University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Nigel Weiss |
| Academic work | |
| Doctoral students | Alona Ben-Tal[1] |
Education and career
editAfter earning bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Auckland, Kirk went to the University of Cambridge for doctoral studies.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in 1990; her dissertation, Destruction of tori in dissipative flows, was supervised by Nigel Weiss.[4]
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and at the California Institute of Technology.[2] Kirk's notable students include Alona Ben-Tal.[5]
Books
editKirk is the co-author of the books Mathematical Analysis of Complex Cellular Activity (Springer, 2015) and Models of Calcium Signalling (Springer, 2016).
Recognition
editIn 2017, Kirk won the Miriam Dell Excellence in Science Mentoring Award of New Zealand's Association for Women in the Sciences, in part for her efforts in founding and running a series of annual workshops for young women in mathematics and physics since 2007.[6]
References
edit- ^ Ben-Tal, Alona (2001). A Study of Symmetric Forced Oscillators (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland.
- ^ a b c Professor Vivien Kirk, University of Auckland, retrieved 2022-02-09
- ^ Presidents of the Society, New Zealand Mathematical Society, retrieved 2018-10-11
- ^ Vivien Kirk at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Ben-Tal, Alona (2001). A Study of Symmetric Forced Oscillators (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland.
- ^ Association for Women in the Sciences (1 December 2007), Mathematician Vivien Kirk Recognised for Mentoring Others – via Scoop