Noriko Yui

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Noriko Yui is a professor of mathematics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She was born in Japan and earned a B.S. from Tsuda College and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Rutgers University in 1974, supervised by Richard Bumby.

She has been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn several times and a Bye-Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge.

Yui’s research is in arithmetic geometry with connections to mathematical physics, especially mirror symmetry. Much of her current work focuses on the modularity of Calabi-Yau threefolds. With Fernando Q. Gouvêa, she showed that for certain Calabi-Yau threefolds defined over the rationals, the L-function of the threefold matches the L-function of a modular form.

Since 2007, she has been the managing editor of the journal Communications in Number Theory and Physics. She has edited several books and co-authored two.