title: Sylvie Paycha
text: # Sylvie Paycha
  
  Sylvie Paycha (born 27 March 1960 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French mathematician and mathematical physicist working in operator theory as a professor at the University of Potsdam. She has chaired both European Women in Mathematics and L'association femmes et mathématiques.
  
  ## Education
  
  She completed her PhD thesis at the University of Bochum, Germany in 1988. Her doctoral advisor was Sergio Albeverio.
  
  ## Selected publications
  
  * Albeverio, Sergio; Jost, Jürgen; Paycha, Sylvie; Scarlatti, Sergio (1997), A mathematical introduction to string theory, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, vol. 225, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/CBO9780511600791, ISBN 0-521-55610-4
  * Paycha, Sylvie (2012), Regularised integrals, sums and traces, University Lecture Series, vol. 59, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, doi:10.1090/ulect/059, ISBN 978-0-8218-5367-2
  