Tatiana Toro, new vice president of the International Mathematical Union

Colombian mathematician Tatiana Toro was appointed as vice president of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), one of the most outstanding international organizations in this area of ​​knowledge.

It is, nothing more and nothing less, than the organization in charge of delivering the famous Fields Medal every four years, considered in the field as the ‘Nobel Prize’ of mathematics, whose delivery was precisely this June 5.

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Along with the announcement of the Fields Medal, the organization announced the names that will make up its new executive committee for the four-year period from 2023-2026, whose members include Colombian mathematicians.

Thus, Toro will be in the vice presidency of the organization, whose executive president will now be the Japanese Hiraku Nakajima, while the French Christoph Sorger will serve as general secretary.

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In this way, the Colombian will be among the people in charge of selecting the next winners of one of the most important math awards in the world.

Tatiana Toro is a graduate of the National University of Colombia and has a doctorate from Stanford University in the United States. She has also stood out as a professor at the University of Washington, an institution that in 2019 awarded her the Marsha L. Landolt Award as one of the best professors in mathematics.

A year ago she was appointed as the director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), one of the main centers for collaborative research in mathematics worldwide.

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Professor Toro’s involvement with MSRI began during her graduate education at Stanford University in the 1980s, when she participated in one of the institute’s first summer graduate schools.

Since 1997, she has been deeply involved in MSRI’s research programs and has served on the governing scientific advisory committee since 2016 and as co-chair since 2018.

His career path encompasses a strong focus on service to the mathematical community, including extensive tutoring of students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her commitment to addressing issues of equity and inclusion of underrepresented groups in the mathematical sciences is a guiding principle in each of the settings in which he participates.

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His main lines of research revolve around the interface of partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, the calculus of variations and the theory of geometric measures.

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