{{Short description|Mathematician}} {{Use dmy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=February 2022}} {{Use list-defined references|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Ailsa Macgregor Keating | birth_date = <!--{{birth date |YYYY|MM|DD}}--> | birth_place = | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = Columbia University<br/>Institute for Advanced Study<br/>University of Cambridge | education = | alma_mater = Clare College, Cambridge<br/>Massachusetts Institute of Technology | thesis_title = Symplectic properties of Milnor fibres | thesis_url = https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/90186 | thesis_year = 2014 | doctoral_advisor = Paul Seidel | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | awards = Berwick Prize | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | father = | mother = | relatives = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/person/amk50}} | footnotes = }} '''Ailsa Macgregor Keating''' is a mathematician specialising in symplectic geometry and homological mirror symmetry.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/profile/ailsa-keating/ | title=Ailsa Keating – European Women in Mathematics }}</ref> She is a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge.
==Education and career== Keating grew up in Toulouse, France.{{r|about}} She read mathematics in Clare College, Cambridge from 2005 to 2009, earning a master's degree through Part III of the Mathematical Tripos.{{r|glass}} She went on to graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing her dissertation in 2014 with the dissertation ''Symplectic properties of Milnor fibres'' supervised by Paul Seidel.{{r|mg}}
She returned to Cambridge as a Junior Research Fellow in Trinity College in 2014,{{r|glass}} at the same time doing postdoctoral research as a Simons Foundation Junior Fellow<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 16, 2026 |title=Simons Society of Fellows- Ailsa Keating |url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/people/ailsa-keating/ |url-status=live |website=Simons Foundation}}</ref> at Columbia University and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. She became a lecturer at Cambridge in 2017{{r|about}} and was promoted to professor in 2023.{{r|dpmms}}
==Recognition== Keating is the winner of the 2021 Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society, for her research using Dehn twists to study the symmetries of symplectic manifolds.{{r|berwick}}
==References== <references>
<ref name=about>{{citation|url=https://sites.google.com/view/ailsakeating/about|title=About Ailsa Keating|first=Ailsa|last=Keating|access-date=2022-02-03}}; see also linked curriculum vitae</ref>
<ref name=berwick>{{citation|url=https://www.lms.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-files/Keating%20%28Berwick%29.pdf|title=Berwick Prize: citation for Ailsa Keating|publisher=London Mathematical Society|access-date=2022-02-03}}</ref>
<ref name=glass>{{citation|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/through-looking-glass|title=Through the looking glass|work=Features: Faculty Insights|publisher=Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics|access-date=2022-02-03}}</ref>
<ref name=mg>{{mathgenealogy|id=193894}}</ref>
<ref name=dpmms>{{citation|url=https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/senior-academic-promotions-0|title=Senior Academic Promotions|publisher=Cambridge Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics|access-date=2023-12-04}}</ref>
</references>
==External links== *[https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/person/amk50 Home page]
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