Colombian mathematician Tatiana Toro has been appointed Vice President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), One of the leading international organizations in this field of knowledge.
It is, no more, no less, the organization responsible for delivering the famous Fields Medal every four years, considered in the field the ‘Nobel Prize’ in Mathematics, delivered precisely on June 5.
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Along with the announcement of the Fields Medal, the organization has announced the names that will make up its new Executive Committee for a four-year term from 2023-2026, whose membership includes Colombian mathematicians.
Thus, Toru will be the vice-president of the organization, whose chief executive will now be Japanese Hirako Nakajima, while the Frenchman Christophe Surger will take the position of general secretary.
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In this way, the Colombian will be among the people responsible for selecting the next winners of one of the most important mathematics prizes in the world.
Tatiana Toro graduated from the National University of Columbia and received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in the United States. In addition, she has emerged as a professor at the University of Washington, an institution that in 2019 awarded her the Marsha L. Landolt Prize as one of the best mathematics professors.
A year ago she was appointed director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), one of the major centers for collaborative research in mathematics worldwide.
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Professor Toru’s involvement with MSRI began during her higher education at Stanford University in the 1980s, when she attended one of the institute’s first summer graduate schools.
Since 1997, she has been deeply involved in MSRI’s research programs and has served on the Governing Scientific Advisory Committee since 2016 and as Co-Chair since 2018.
His career path includes a strong focus on serving the athletic community, including extensive teaching for undergraduate and graduate students. Her commitment to addressing issues of equality and inclusion of underrepresented groups in the mathematical sciences is a guiding principle in each of the settings in which she is involved.
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His main lines of research revolve around the interface of partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, arithmetic inequality, and geometric scale theory.
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