IMPA researcher featured in Quanta Magazine
Carolina é da área de Geometria Algébrica Foto: Lianne Milton/Quanta Magazine
IMPA senior researcher Carolina Araujo started 2019 with a full schedule. She began a sabbatical at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, United States; assumed the vice-presidency of the Committee for Women in Mathematics of the International Mathematical Union (IMU); and is organizing the first National Meeting of Women Mathematicians, to be held in July, according to a report in Quanta Magazine.
Quanta, an online publication of the prestigious Simons Foundation, an American institution that funds research in mathematics and basic sciences, features a lengthy report on the researcher in the field of Algebraic Geometry.
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Written by journalist Siobhan Roberts – who came to Rio in August to cover the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) – the text details Carolina's most recent activities and the career path of the Rio-born mathematician, who earned her PhD at Princeton University and then joined IMPA, where she became a senior researcher in 2006.
In the interview, Carolina talks specifically about the gender disparity in mathematics and recounts her experience participating in the organization of the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)², a satellite event of ICM 2018, promoted by the IMU Committee.
Click here to read the full article. Below is a video filmed at IMPA by the Quanta Magazine team.
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