{{short description|New Zealand mathematician}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=December 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic | name = Vivien Kirk | image = Vivien Kirk 1990 (headshot).jpg | caption = Vivien Kirk in 1990 | doctoral_students = Alona Ben-Tal<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=A Study of Symmetric Forced Oscillators |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/2323 |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland |date=2001 |degree=Doctoral |language=en |first=Alona |last=Ben-Tal}}</ref> | doctoral_advisor = Nigel Weiss | alma_mater = University of Auckland<br>University of Cambridge }} '''Vivien Kirk''' is a New Zealand mathematician who studies dynamical systems. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Auckland, where she also serves as associate pro-vice chancellor graduate research,{{r|profile}} and was president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society for 2017–2019.{{r|pres}}
==Education and career== After earning bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Auckland, Kirk went to the University of Cambridge for doctoral studies.{{r|profile}} She completed her Ph.D. in 1990; her dissertation, ''Destruction of tori in dissipative flows'', was supervised by Nigel Weiss.{{r|mgp}}
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and at the California Institute of Technology.{{r|profile}} Kirk's notable students include Alona Ben-Tal.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=A Study of Symmetric Forced Oscillators |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/2323 |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland |date=2001 |degree=Doctoral |language=en |first=Alona |last=Ben-Tal}}</ref>
==Books== Kirk is the co-author of the books ''Mathematical Analysis of Complex Cellular Activity'' (Springer, 2015) and ''Models of Calcium Signalling'' (Springer, 2016).
==Recognition== In 2017, Kirk won the Miriam Dell Excellence in Science Mentoring Award of New Zealand's Association for Women in the Sciences, in part for her efforts in founding and running a series of annual workshops for young women in mathematics and physics since 2007.{{r|dell}}
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<ref name=pres>{{citation|url=https://nzmathsoc.org.nz/?historylists|title=Presidents of the Society|publisher=New Zealand Mathematical Society|accessdate=2018-10-11}}</ref>
<ref name=profile>{{citation|url=https://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/people/vkir001|title=Professor Vivien Kirk|publisher=University of Auckland|accessdate=2022-02-09}}</ref>
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