# Lisa Jeffrey

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**Lisa Claire Jeffrey** [FRSC](/source/Royal_Society_of_Canada) is a Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto). In her research, she uses [symplectic geometry](/source/Symplectic_geometry) to provide rigorous proofs of results in [quantum field theory](/source/Quantum_field_theory).[1]

## Education and career

Jeffrey graduated from [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) in 1986.[1] She was awarded the [Marshall Scholarship](/source/Marshall_Scholarship) and obtained her doctorate from the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) in 1991, under the supervision of [Sir Michael Atiyah](/source/Sir_Michael_Atiyah).[2]

After working as postdoctoral researcher at the [Institute for Advanced Study](/source/Institute_for_Advanced_Study), she became an assistant professor at Princeton in 1992. She then moved to [McGill University](/source/McGill_University) in 1995, and became full professor at the University of Toronto in 1997.[3]

Jeffrey was the 2001 winner of the [Krieger–Nelson Prize](/source/Krieger%E2%80%93Nelson_Prize)[1] and the 2002 winner of the [Coxeter–James Prize](/source/Coxeter%E2%80%93James_Prize).[4] In 2007 she became a fellow of the [Royal Society of Canada](/source/Royal_Society_of_Canada),[5] and in 2012 she became a fellow of the [American Mathematical Society](/source/American_Mathematical_Society).[6] She was chosen to give the [Association for Women in Mathematics](/source/Association_for_Women_in_Mathematics)-[American Mathematical Society](/source/American_Mathematical_Society) 2017 [Noether Lecture](/source/Noether_Lecture) at the Joint Mathematics Meetings.[7]

## Selected publications

- Quantum fields and strings: a course for mathematicians. Vol. 1, 2. Material from the Special Year on Quantum Field Theory held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1996–1997. Edited by [Pierre Deligne](/source/Pierre_Deligne), [Pavel Etingof](/source/Pavel_Etingof), [Daniel S. Freed](/source/Daniel_S._Freed), Lisa C. Jeffrey, [David Kazhdan](/source/David_Kazhdan), [John W. Morgan](/source/John_Morgan_(mathematician)), [David R. Morrison](/source/David_R._Morrison_(mathematician)) and [Edward Witten](/source/Edward_Witten). American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI; Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, NJ, 1999. Vol. 1: xxii+723 pp.; Vol. 2: pp. i–xxiv and 727–1501. ISBN 0-8218-1198-3, 81-06 (81T30 81Txx)

## References

1. [Krieger–Nelson prize citation](http://www.math.ca/Prizes/citations/kn2001.pdf), retrieved 2013-01-26.

1. [Curriculum vitae](http://www.math.toronto.edu/jeffrey/cvdept12.pdf) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20181101015528/http://www.math.toronto.edu/jeffrey/cvdept12.pdf) 2018-11-01 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2013-01-26.

1. [CMS 2002 Coxeter-James Prize - Dr. Lisa Jeffery (University of Toronto)](http://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2002/awards2002.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20161113201742/http://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2002/awards2002.html/) 2016-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, [Canadian Mathematical Society](/source/Canadian_Mathematical_Society), retrieved 2013-01-28.

1. [RSC member listing](http://rsc-src.ca/en/search-fellows) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20200204103715/https://rsc-src.ca/en/search-fellows) 2020-02-04 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2013-01-26.

1. [List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society](https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list), retrieved 2013-01-26.

1. [Lisa Jeffrey named 2017 Noether Lecturer](https://sites.google.com/site/awmmath/home/announcements/lisajeffreynamed2017noetherlecturer)

## External links

- [personal web page](http://www.math.toronto.edu/jeffrey/)

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