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Association for Women in Mathematics AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lectures

supported by the US Department of Energy, the Association for Women in Mathematics,
and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

About the Series | Call for Nominations | The Lecturers

About the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Series

AWM and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) established the annual Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture to highlight significant contributions of women to applied or computational mathematics. This lecture is given annually at the SIAM Annual Meeting. In 2011, the lecture will be given at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The lectureship may be awarded to anyone in the scientific or engineering community whose work highlights the achievements of women in applied or computational mathematics.

This is a jointly awarded prize (AWM-SIAM).

By agreement, AWM and SIAM pay for the winner's expenses to travel to the SIAM meeting and also local expenses. There is no cash award. The Department of Energy is the sponsor covering expenses for this lecture series.

Nominations for this award are solicited. Nominations will remain active for a total of two years (one year beyond the initial nomination). The due date is Novemeber 1 of the year before the lecture is given.

The AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture was given for the first time on June 20, 2003 at the SIAM/CAIMS/SCMAI meeting in Montréal. Biographical profiles of past lecturers along with abstracts of their presentations are given below.

Sonia Kovalevsky (1850-1891) was the most widely known Russian mathematician of the late 19th century. In 1874, She received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Gottingen and was appointed lecturer at the University of Stockholm in 1883. Kovalevsky did her most imporant work in the theory of differential equations.

Call for Nominations for the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture

Letters of nomination should include an outline of the nominee’s contributions to applied or computational mathematics, a list of some of her most important research papers, and a citation of about 100 words that may be read when introducing the speaker.

Questions? Call 703-934-0163 or email awm@awm-math.org.

AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Nomination Deadline: September 15, 2010.

The Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturers

2009 Andrea Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles
2008 Dianne P. O'Leary, University of Maryland
Abstract: A Noisy Adiabatic Theorem: Wilkinson Meets Schrödinger's Cat
2007 Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute
Abstract: Shear-Induced Chaos
2006 Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract: New Challenges in the Calculus of Variations
2005 Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University
Abstract: Superfast and (Super)sparse Algorithms
2004 Joyce R. McLaughlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Abstract: Interior Elastodynamics Inverse Problems: Creating Shear Wave Speed Images of Tissue
2003 Linda R. Petzold, University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract: Towards the Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Networks
 

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