Maria Chudnovsky is a professor in the department of mathematics at Princeton University. She grew up in Russia and Israel, studying at the Technion and received her Ph.D. in 2003 from Princeton under the supervision of Paul Seymour. She moved to Columbia after being a Clay Mathematics Institute research fellow and assistant professor at Princeton. Chudnovsky's contributions to graph theory include the proof of the strong perfect graph theorem with Robertson, Seymour and Thomas characterizing perfect graphs as being exactly the graphs with no odd induced cycles of length at least 5 or their complements. Other research contributions of Chudnovsky include co-authorship of the first polynomial time algorithm for recognizing perfect graphs and of a structural characterization of the claw-free graphs.[-]

Sylvia Serfaty is a Professor at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6. Sylvia Serfaty was a Global Distinguished Professor of Mathematics in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. She has been awarded a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship and a NSF CAREER award (2003), the 2004 European Mathematical Society Prize, 2007 EURYI (European Young Investigator) award, and has been invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (2006), Plenary speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics (2012) and has recently received the IAMP Henri Poincar´e prize in 2012. Her research is focused on the study of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, calculus of variations and mathematical physics, in particular the Ginzburg-Landau superconductivity model. Sylvia Serfaty was the first to make a systematic and impressive asymptotic analysis for the case of large parameters in theory of the Ginzburg-Landau equation. She established precisely, with Etienne Sandier, the values of the first critical fields for nucleation of vortices in superconductors, as well as the leading and next to leading order effective energies that govern the location of these vortices and their arrangement in Abrikosov lattices In micromagnetics, her work with F. Alouges and T. Rivière breaks new ground on singularly perturbed variational problems and provides the first explanation for the internal structure of cross-tie walls.
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Personal page : http://www.ann.jussieu.fr/~serfaty/[-]

Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University.

Baroness Ingrid Daubechies (In 2012 King Albert II of Belgium granted her the title of Baroness) is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. Between 2004 and 2011 she was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in the mathematics and applied mathematics departments at Princeton University. She taught at Princeton for 16 years. In January 2011 she moved to Duke University as a professor in mathematics. She was the first woman to be president of the International Mathematical Union (2011–2014). She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression.

Why she does mathematics, first mathematical memories, first encounter with mathematics, influences, research themes, wavelets theory, collaboration with Alex Grossman and Jean Morlet, first « Eurêka moment », etc.[-]

Dusa McDuff is the Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College. At Barnard, she currently teaches "Calculus I", "Perspectives in Mathematics" and courses in geometry and topology.
Professor McDuff gained her early teaching experience at the University of York (U.K.), the University of Warwick (U.K.) and MIT. In 1978, she joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at SUNY Stony Brook, where she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor in 1998.
Professor McDuff has honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, the University of York, the University of Strasbourg and the University of St Andrews. She is a fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and an honorary fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.
She has received the Satter Prize from the American Mathematical Society and the Outstanding Woman Scientist Award from AWIS (Association for Women in Science).
Professor McDuff's service to the mathematical community has been extensive. She is particularly interested in issues connected with the position of women in mathematics, and currently serves on the MSRI Board of Trustees. Together with Dietmar Salamon, she has written several foundational books on symplectic topology as well as many research articles.[-]

Claire Voisin, mathématicienne française, est Directrice de recherche au Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) à l'Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu, elle est membre de l'Académie des sciences et titulaire de la nouvelle chaire de mathématiques « géométrie algébrique » au Collège de France. Elle a reçu de nombreux prix nationaux et internationaux pour ses travaux en géométrie algébrique, et en particulier pour la résolution de la conjecture de Koidara sur les variétés de Kälher compactes et celle de la conjecture de Green sur les syzygies. Elle est depuis 2010 membre de l'Académie des sciences. Depuis le 2 juin 2016, elle est titulaire de la nouvelle chaire de mathématique « géométrie algébrique » devenant ainsi la première femme mathématicienne à entrer au Collège de France. Ses recherches portent sur la géométrie algébrique, notamment sur la conjecture de Hodge4, dans la lignée d'Alexandre Grothendieck ; la symétrie miroir et la géométrie complexe kählérienne.

Distinctions :

Médaille de bronze du CNRS (1988) puis médaille d'argent (2006)et médaille d'or (2016)
Prix IBM jeune chercheur (1989)
Prix EMS de la Société mathématique européenne (1992)
Prix Servant décerné par l'Académie des sciences (1996)
Prix Sophie-Germain décerné par l'Académie des sciences (2003)
Prix Ruth Lyttle Satter décerné par l'AMS (2007)
Clay Research Award en 2008
Prix Heinz Hopf (2015)
Officier de l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (2016)
Prix Shaw (2017)[-]