Catherine Sulem

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Catherine Sulem FRSC (born 1955) [1] is a mathematician and violinist at the University of Toronto.

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She has completed a monograph "Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation: Self-Focusing Instability and Wave Collapse" together with her brother Pierre-Louis Sulem, which appears in applied Mathematical Sciences. [2]

Awards and honours

Sulem is the winner of the fourth Krieger–Nelson Prize, for "important breakthroughs in understanding of many nonlinear phenomena associated with the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the water wave problem". [3] She is also a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [4] In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. [5] In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed her in their inaugural class of fellows. [6] In 2019 she gave the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture, entitled The Dynamics of Ocean Waves, at the 7th ICIAM in Valencia. [7] This lecture is awarded jointly by Association of Women in Mathematics and SIAM. In 2020, Sulem was awarded the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize, the premier Canadian research prize in the mathematical sciences. She was elected to the 2023 Class of SIAM Fellows. [8]

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References

  1. Birth year from Sulem and Sulem (2007). The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation: Self-Focusing and Wave Collapse. New York: Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 0387227687. Note that some sources such as the German National Library entry for Sulem (retrieved 2024-08-05) give a different birthdate, 1957.
  2. "Focus on Research - Sulem, Catherine". focus.library.utoronto.ca. Archived from the original on 2014-05-30. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  3. The 4th Krieger–Nelson Prize Lecture from Canadian Mathematical Society
  4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-06-07.
  5. "SULEM, Catherine, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  6. Canadian Mathematical Society Inaugural Class of Fellows, Canadian Mathematical Society, December 7, 2018
  7. Speaker List for the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture
  8. "SIAM Announces Class of 2023 Fellows", SIAM News, retrieved 2023-04-08