Anna Seigal is a British mathematician who conducts research in applied algebraic geometry at

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and the

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. She was awarded the 2020 SIAM Richard C. DiPrima Prize and the Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics.

Education and career

Seigal earned her bachelor's degree (BA honors) from Emmanuel College,

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in 2013, scoring 1st class, top 10 in the

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. She earned her master's degree (MMath, 2014) there earning an honours pass with distinction on Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. Her Master's essay, ''Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves with Complex Multiplication,'' was supervised by John H. Coates. Seigal earned her PhD in

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from

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in 2019. Her dissertation, ''Structured Tensors and the Geometry of Data'', was supervised by

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. It investigates the algebraic theory of tensors and algorithms for tensor data. At

she is a Junior Research Fellow in

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and Hooke Research Fellow in the Mathematical Institute.

Awards and honors

She was awarded the 2020 SIAM Richard C. DiPrima Prize and the Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Seigal, Anna Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British mathematicians British women mathematicians Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty Alumni of the University of Cambridge University of California, Berkeley alumni British applied mathematicians Algebraic geometers