:Marie-Françoise Roy
{{short description|French mathematician and academic}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1950}}
| birth_place = Paris
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| nationality = French
| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = University of Rennes 1
| alma_mater = Paris 13 University
| doctoral_advisor = Jean Bénabou
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Marie-Françoise Roy (born 28 April 1950 in Paris) is a French mathematician noted for her work in real algebraic geometry. She has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of Rennes 1 since 1985 and in 2009 was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour.Journal officiel de la République française (1 January 2009). [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000020020329&fastPos=3&fastReqId=196080316&oldAction=rechExpTexteJorf "Décret du 31 décembre 2008 portant promotion et nomination"], p. 15. In 2004, she received an Irène Joliot-Curie Prize.
Research
Roy works in real algebraic geometry in particular real spectra and, most recently, in complexity of algorithms in real algebraic geometry and also the applications.[http://www.espace-sciences.org/archives/science/13583.html Interview in la revue de l'espace de sciences (in French)]
Education and career
Marie-Françoise Roy got her education at École Normale Supérieure de jeunes filles and was an assistant professor at Université Paris Nord during 1973.[https://www.ihes.fr/~carbone/papers/women.pdf Women in Mathematics...Why not You? Exhibition in 16 portraits. p.20] She received her PhD at Université Paris Nord in 1980, supervised by Jean Bénabou.{{mathgenealogy|id=64165}}
From 1981 she spent two years at Abdou Moumouni University in Niger. In 1985 she became a professor at University of Rennes 1 in Rennes, France.
Service
Roy was president of Société Mathématique de France from 2004 to 2007.{{Cite web |url=http://smf.emath.fr/content/anciens-presidents |title=Past presidents of Société Mathématique de France (in French) |access-date=2013-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024023304/http://smf.emath.fr/content/anciens-presidents |archive-date=2016-10-24 |url-status=dead }}
In 1986, Roy was one of the founders[http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx?isGallary=true&shareID=8755087&fileID=748744287 Newsletter of the AWM, October 1986] p.1 of European Women in Mathematics (EWM), and was the convenor (president) of EWM 2009–2013.{{Cite web |url=http://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/women-in-math/portrait/marie-francoise-roy |title=EWM, Portrait of Marie-Francoise Roy |access-date=2013-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022221536/http://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/women-in-math/portrait/marie-francoise-roy |archive-date=2016-10-22 |url-status=dead }} In 1987 she co-founded the French organization for women in mathematics, Femmes et Mathématiques, and became the organization's first president.
Roy is scientific officer for Sub-Saharan Africa in Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, CIMPA.[http://www.cimpa-icpam.org/spip.php?rubrique45&lang=en CIMPA website] Roy is president of Association d'Echanges Culturels Cesson Dankassari (Tarbiyya-Tatali) an organization working for joint activities in a commune Dan-Cassari in Niger and the French commune Cesson-Sévigné.
Selected publications
- with Saugata Basu, Richard Pollack: [https://books.google.com/books?id=ecwGevUijK4C Algorithms in real algebraic geometry. Springer 2003.][http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/marie-francoise.roy/bpr-ed2-posted2.pdf pdf-file freely available on author's homepage]
- with Jacek Bochnak, Michel Coste: Real algebraic geometry. 2.Edition, Springer, Ergebnisse der Mathematik Bd. 36, 1998 (first in French 1. Edition 1987).
- Three Problems in real algebraic geometry and their descendants. In: Engquist, Schmid: Mathematics unlimited- 2001 and beyond. Springer Verlag 2000, S. 991 (Hilberts 17th Problem, Algorithms, Topology of real algebraic varieties).
- Géométrie algébrique réelle. In: Jean-Paul Pier (Hrsg.): Development of Mathematics 1950-2000. Birkhäuser 2000.
- Introduction a la geometrie algebrique reelle, Cahiers Sem. Hist. Math., 1991, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120712062723/http://numdam.org/numdam-bin/feuilleter?id=CSHM_1991_2_1_ Online]
References
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External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100620233628/http://cirs-tm.org/researchers/researchers.php?id=321 Homepage International Center Scientific Research]}}
- [http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/marie-francoise.roy/ Homepage in Rennes]
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