Déborah Oliveros Braniff is a Mexican mathematician whose research interests include discrete geometry, combinatorics, and convex geometry, including the geometry of bodies of constant width and related topics.[1]

Education and career

After earning an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1992, and earning a master's degree in 1994 under the mentorship of Mónica Clapp,[2] Oliveros continued at UNAM for graduate study in mathematics, with doctoral research on an unsolved question of Stanislaw Ulam concerning the buoyancy of floating convex bodies.[1] Her 1997 dissertation on the topic, Los volantines : sistemas dinamicos asociados al problema de la flotacion de los cuerpos, was jointly supervised by Luis Montejano and Javier Bracho.[3]

She became a professor at UNAM in 1996, but left in 1999 for postdoctoral research at the University of Calgary in Canada. She became a professor there from 2001 to 2005, when she returned to a professorship at UNAM.[2] She became one of the founders of the branch of the UNAM Institute of Mathematics at the UNAM Juriquilla campus, and directed the institute for 2015–2016.[1] She also holds an affiliation with the Faculty of Engineering of the Autonomous University of Queretaro.[4]

Book

Oliveros is a coauthor with Horst Martini and Luis Montejano of the book Bodies of Constant Width: An Introduction to Convex Geometry with Applications (Birkhäuser, 2019).[5]

Recognition

UNAM gave Oliveros the "Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" award in 2014.[6] She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Semblanza, Mexican Mathematical Society, retrieved 2022-11-28
  2. 1 2 Curriculum vitae (PDF), August 2006, retrieved 2022-11-28
  3. ↑ Déborah Oliveros at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ "Deborah Oliveros Braniff, Facultad de Ingeniería", Directory, Autonomous University of Queretaro, retrieved 2022-11-28
  5. ↑ Reviews of Bodies of Constant Width:
    • Soltan, Valery P., zbMATH, Zbl 1468.52001{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Stancu, Alina, MathSciNet, MR 3930585{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. ↑ Distinciones, UNAM Institute of Mathematics, retrieved 2022-11-28
  7. ↑ Mathematics section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2021, retrieved 2022-11-28
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