Peter David Lax is a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.
Cathleen Synge Morawetz was a Canadian mathematician who spent much of her career in the United States. Morawetz's research was mainly in the study of the partial differential equations governing fluid flow,particularly those of mixed type occurring in transonic flow. She was professor emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the New York University,where she had also served as director from 1984 to 1988. She was president of the American Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1996. She was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1998.
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was a Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations,fluid dynamics,and the finite difference method for the Navier–Stokes equations. She received the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002. She is the author of more than two hundred scientific works,among which are six monographs.
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin,where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair. She is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University.
Lipman Bers was a Latvian-American mathematician,born in Riga,who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. He was also known for his work in human rights activism.
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences,and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences. The AWM was founded in 1971 and incorporated in the state of Massachusetts. AWM has approximately 5200 members,including over 250 institutional members,such as colleges,universities,institutes,and mathematical societies. It offers numerous programs and workshops to mentor women and girls in the mathematical sciences. Much of AWM's work is supported through federal grants.
Linda Jo Goldway Keen is an American mathematician and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Since 1965,she has been a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman College of the City University of New York and a Professor of Mathematics at Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Chi-Wang Shu is the Theodore B. Stowell University Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. He is known for his research in the fields of computational fluid dynamics,numerical solutions of conservation laws and Hamilton–Jacobi type equations. Shu has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge.
Alberto Bressan is an Italian mathematician at Penn State University. His primary field of research is mathematical analysis including hyperbolic systems of conservation laws,impulsive control of Lagrangian systems,and non-cooperative differential games.
Robert Leamon Bryant is an American mathematician. He works at Duke University and specializes in differential geometry.
Carolyn S. Gordon is a mathematician and Benjamin Cheney Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. She is most well known for giving a negative answer to the question "Can you hear the shape of a drum?" in her work with David Webb and Scott A. Wolpert. She is a Chauvenet Prize winner and a 2010 Noether Lecturer.
Lesley Millman Sibner was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. She earned her Bachelors at City College CUNY in Mathematics. She completed her doctorate at Courant Institute NYU in 1964 under the joint supervision of Lipman Bers and Cathleen Morawetz. Her thesis concerned partial differential equations of mixed-type.
Jill Catherine Pipher was the president of the American Mathematical Society. She began a two-year term in 2019. She is also the past president of the Association for Women in Mathematics,and she was the first director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics,an NSF-funded mathematics institute based in Providence,Rhode Island.
Phoolan Prasad is an Indian mathematician who specialised in Partial differential equations,fluid mechanics. He was awarded in 1983 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,the highest science award in India,in the mathematical sciences category. He is Fellow of all Indian Science Academies:The National Academy of Sciences,India (NASI),Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) and Indian National Science Academy (INSA).
Irena Lasiecka is a Polish-American mathematician,a Distinguished University Professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics department at the University of Memphis. She is also co-editor-in-chief of two academic journals,Applied Mathematics &Optimization and Evolution Equations &Control Theory.
Laura Grace DeMarco is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University,whose research concerns dynamical systems and complex analysis.
Suzanne Marie Lenhart is an American mathematician who works in partial differential equations,optimal control and mathematical biology. She is a Chancellor's Professor of mathematics at the University of Tennessee,an associate director for education and outreach at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis,and a part-time researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Tai-Ping Liu is a Taiwanese mathematician,specializing in partial differential equations.
Talitha Washington is an American mathematician and academic who specializes in applied mathematics and STEM education policy. She was recognized by Mathematically Gifted &Black as a Black History Month 2018 Honoree. Washington became the 26th president of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2023.
The AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture is an award and lecture series that "highlights significant contributions of women to applied or computational mathematics." The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) planned the award and lecture series in 2002 and first awarded it in 2003. The lecture is normally given each year at the SIAM Annual Meeting. Award winners receive a signed certificate from the AWM and SIAM presidents.
