Irena Vassileva Peeva is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, specializing in commutative algebra.Faculty profile, Cornell University, retrieved 2018-10-30. She disproved the Eisenbud–Goto regularity conjecture jointly with Jason McCullough.
Education and career Peeva did her graduate studies at Brandeis University, earning a Ph.D. in 1995 under the supervision of David Eisenbud with a thesis entitled Free Resolutions. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the Cornell Department of Mathematics faculty in 1998.Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2018-10-30.
Peeva is an editor of the Transactions of AMS.
Books Peeva is the author of: Graded Syzygies (Springer, 2011).Reviews of Graded Syzygies: Christopher A. Francisco (2011), ; Peter Schenzel, Minimal Free Resolutions over Complete Intersections (with David Eisenbud, Springer, 2016).Reviews of Minimal Free Resolutions over Complete Intersections: Benjamin P. Richert, ; Michael Brown,
Recognition In 2014 Peeva was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to commutative algebra and its applications."2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, retrieved 2014-06-16.
In 2019/2020 and in 2012/2013 Peeva was a Simons Foundation fellow. During 1999-2001 she was a Sloan Foundation fellow and was a Sloan doctoral dissertation fellow in 1994/1995.
References
External links Home page at Cornell University Irena Peeva in the Oberwolfach photo collection