Nina Holden
Bornc. 1986 (age 37–38)
NationalityNorwegian
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsMaryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
ThesisCardy embedding of random planar maps and a KPZ formula for mated trees (2018)
Doctoral advisorScott Sheffield

Nina Holden is a Norwegian mathematician interested in probability theory and stochastic processes, including graphons, random planar maps, the Schramm–Loewner evolution, and their applications to quantum gravity. She is a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Studies at ETH Zurich, and has accepted a position as an associate professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University beginning in 2021.[1][2]

Education

As a student at Berg Upper Secondary School in Oslo, Norway,[3] Holden became the first woman to win the Abel competition, Norway's national Mathematical Olympiad.[4] She competed in 2005 in the International Mathematical Olympiad, where she earned an honorable mention with one of the two top scores on the Norwegian team.[5]

She became a student at the University of Oslo in Norway, where she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computational science in 2008 and a master's degree in applied mathematics in 2010. While a student in Oslo, she also visited the University of Oxford from 2006 to 2007.[1]

After three years of work as an energy market analyst, she went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study,[1][4] and completed her Ph.D. there in 2018.[1] Her dissertation, Cardy embedding of random planar maps and a KPZ formula for mated trees, was supervised by Scott Sheffield.[1][6]

Recognition

In association with the 2021 Breakthrough Prizes, Holden was awarded one of three 2021 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes, for early-career achievements by a woman mathematician.[2][7] The citation reads: "for work in random geometry, particularly on Liouville Quantum Gravity as a scaling limit of random triangulations." The particular work refers to her joint work with Xin Sun on the convergence of uniform triangulations under a conformal embedding. The other two winners of the prize were Urmila Mahadev and Lisa Piccirillo.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-09-19
  2. 1 2 Schei, Amanda (15 September 2020), "Prestisjepris til unge matematikere: Nina Holden tildeles The 2021 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize og anerkjennes som en fremragende, ung matematiker" [Prestigious award for young mathematicians: Nina Holden is awarded The 2021 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize and is recognized as an outstanding young mathematician], Khrono (in Norwegian)
  3. ↑ Johansen, Nils Voja (2005), "Nina Holden, 3D Berg videregående skole, Oslo (photo)", Abel Prize Photo Archive
  4. 1 2 "Nina (27) vant Abels mattekonkurranse. Men nivåspranget til MIT var enormt" [Nina (27) won Abel's math competition. But the level jump to MIT was huge], TU (in Norwegian), 18 July 2014
  5. ↑ NOR at IMO 2005, International Mathematical Olympiad, retrieved 2020-09-19
  6. ↑ Nina Holden at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. 1 2 "Winners of the 2021 Breakthrough Prizes in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics announced", Breakthrough Prizes, 10 September 2020, retrieved 2020-09-19
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