Alina Stancu |
| Professor |
| Director of the CRM Analysis Lab |
| Department of Mathematics & Statistics |
| Concordia University |
| 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West |
| Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada |
| Office: LB 921-27 |
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| Tel: (514) 848-2424 ext 5345 |
| Fax: (514) 848-2831 |
| E-mail: alina.stancuATconcordia.ca |
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© Octav Cornea, Antibes, July 2022.
Research Interests:
Geometric analysis, in particular curvature flows, and convex geometry. I am also
interested in notions of generalized curvatures,
applications of convexity in hyperbolic space, geometric inequalities, such as isoperimetric-type inequalities, and other extremal problems.
In 2026-2027, I'm supervising two MSc students and two PhD students.
NEWS:
There will be a CRM workshop on Convex and Geometric Analysis, December 9-11, 2026, preceding the Canadian Math Society (CMS) Winter Meeting.
Besides a few research talks, the workshop will have 4-5 mini-courses whose lectures would help students and postdocs to engage more effectively with established researchers and prepare them to fully benefit from the CMS winter meeting where there will be several scientific sessions either on convex geometry, geometric analysis, or other fields exploiting convexity as tools. The organization of the workshop is underway. More details to come.
The 2026 Nirenberg Lectures in Geometric Analysis will take place the week of November 16 at the CRM. More details to come.
Women and Mathematics:
May 12 events around the world.
Interview with Michèle Vergne in
1974 (In French) Page 37 or look into the table of contents.
A data analysis of women's trails among ICM speakers which provides several interesting statistics on gender representation.
Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM) has a student chapter at Concordia University. Contact email: awm.mathstatATconcordia.ca
Readings I enjoyed,
in reverse chronological order:
Fredrik Backman
Anxious people,
Yael Van Der Wouden The safekeep, Gary Shteyngart Vera, or faith, Hervé Le Tellier The anomaly, Lara Prescott The secrets we kept, Lisa See Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Lea Ypi Free, Catherine Newman We all want impossible things, Yoko Ogawa The Memory Police, Gary Shteyngart Our Country Friends, Yoko Ogawa The Housekeeper and the Professor, Max Gross The Lost Shtetl, Kathy Wang Impostor Syndrome, Jean Hanff Korelitz The Plot, Lynn Steger Strong Want, Catherine Chung The Tenth Muse, Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl,
Jean Kwok Searching for Sylvie Lee, Marcy Dermansky Very Nice, Katherine Howe The Daughters of
Temeprance Hobbs, Cathleen Schine The Grammarians, Caroline Hulse The adults (perfect for the Winter holidays ha ha), Weike Wang Chemistry, Candace Fleming The Family Romanov:
Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia,
Michel Houellebecq Soumission, Herman Koch The Dinner, Robert Littell The visiting professor,
Claire Holden Rothman My October, Bill Browder Red Notice,
Edward Frenkel Love and Math, Graeme Simsion The Rosie Project (light, but hilarious, much in the spirit of The curious incident of the
dog in the nighttime
set in academia!), Vasili Grosssman Panta Rhei, Cédric Villani
Théorème Vivant, Paul Cornea Ce a fost Cum a fost.
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