Olivia Caramello's website

A unifying perspective on Mathematics

Curriculum Vitae

Date of birth: 29th November 1984

Nationality: Italian

Address (Residence) Jesus College, Cambridge, CB5 8BL, U.K.
Address (Office) Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge, Centre for Mathematical Sciences,
Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, U.K.

Tel. (0044) 0789-5416938
E-mail: O.Caramello@dpmms.cam.ac.uk

Academic appointments

3/10/2011-3/11/2011 Visitor at the IHÉS (France)
1/10/2010 - present

Research Fellow
Jesus College and DPMMS
University of Cambridge (U.K.)
1/10/2009 - 30/10/2010

Junior Visitor
Centro Di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)

Education

2006-2009

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (U.K.)
Research field: Logic and Category Theory, in particular Topos Theory
Thesis: "The Duality between Grothendieck Toposes and Geometric Theories"
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Johnstone
2004-2006

"Laurea Magistrale in Matematica" (a Master-level degree in Mathematics)
University of Turin (Italy)
Final mark: 110/110 with honours and honorable mention
2001-2004

"Laurea Triennale in Matematica" (Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics)
University of Turin (Italy)
Final mark: 110/110 with honours
2004
"Diploma di Pianoforte" (equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in Music)
Conservatorio di Cuneo (Italy)

Awards and scholarships

2011
AILA Prize 2010 (for the best Ph.D. thesis in Mathematical Logic by an Italian mathematician defended in the years 2008-2010).
2009

Junior Visiting Position at the "Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi" of the "Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa" (Italy) for the academic year 2009/2010 (fellowship entirely funded by the Centre)
2009
Three-year Research Fellowship at Jesus College, University of Cambridge (U.K.) (deferred to start in October 2010)
2009

Invited participant (fully funded by EPSRC) to the LMS Durham Symposium "New Directions in the Model Theory of Fields",
20th-30th July 2009 (U.K.)
2008
First prize at the "Edith Leigh Piano Competition 2008",
Trinity College, Cambridge
2007
Selected as the Representative of Italy at the "Korea-Europe Next-Generation Leaders Program 2007" (Seoul, South Korea)
2007 and 2008 Invited Jury Member of the "Pirelli Internetional Award", Rome (Italy)
2006 - 2009
"Prince of Wales Studentship" of Trinity College, Cambridge (given to the most outstanding of the candidates for the External Research Studentships)
2006 Awarded the status of "Honorary Cambridge European Trust Scholar"
2006

Offered admission with full funding (Scatcherd European Scholarship and EPSRC studentship) to the D.Phil. in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Oxford (U.K.)
2006
Offered admission with full funding to the Ph.D. program in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.A.)
2004 and 2006
"Premio Optime" (on both the occasions of my degrees in Turin, awarded by the "Unione Industriale di Torino" to the top graduates of the University of Turin)
2001 - 2004
National-level scholarship awarded by the "Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica", Rome (Italy)

Extra-curricular interests

Music




After my degree in Music I have continued to pursue my interests in musical analysis and piano performance, giving recitals in various occasions. For example, I performed a concert at the international conference "Mathematics and its applications" (Turin, July 2006), and I gave a piano solo recital in Trinity College Chapel (Cambridge, May 2008).  
Philosophy and cognitive science




My mathematical work has always been accompanied by a wider reflection on the abstract principles inspiring it. This has led me to a number of insights on the nature of mathematical creativity and more in general of logical reasoning, which I have informally divulged to friends and colleagues throughout the years. I plan to eventually collect these thoughts into a book describing the philosophical foundations of my work on unifying Mathematics through Topos Theory. 

A full CV including a list of references is available upon request.