The Noether Lecture is a distinguished lecture series that honors women "who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences". The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) established the annual lectures in 1980 as the Emmy Noether Lectures, in honor of one of the leading mathematicians of her time. In 2013 it was renamed the AWM-AMS Noether Lecture and since 2015 is sponsored jointly with the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The recipient delivers the lecture at the yearly American Joint Mathematics Meetings held in January. [1]
The ICM Emmy Noether Lecture is an additional lecture series, sponsored by the International Mathematical Union. Beginning in 1994 this lecture was delivered at the International Congress of Mathematicians, held every four years. In 2010 the lecture series was made permanent. [2]
The 2021 Noether Lecture was supposed to have been given by Andrea Bertozzi of UCLA, but it was cancelled due to Bertozzi's connections to policing. [ failed verification ] The cancellation was made during the George Floyd protests: "This decision comes as many of this nation rise up in protest over racial discrimination and brutality by police". [3]
Year | Name | Lecture title |
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1980 | F. Jessie MacWilliams | A Survey of Coding Theory |
1981 | Olga Taussky-Todd | The Many Aspects of Pythagorean Triangles |
1982 | Julia Robinson | Functional Equations in Arithmetic |
1983 | Cathleen S. Morawetz | How Do Perturbations of the Wave Equation Work |
1984 | Mary Ellen Rudin | Paracompactness |
1985 | Jane Cronin Scanlon | A Model of Cardiac Fiber: Problems in Singularly Perturbed Systems |
1986 | Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat | On Partial Differential Equations of Gauge Theories and General Relativity |
1987 | Joan S. Birman | Studying Links via Braids |
1988 | Karen K. Uhlenbeck | Moment Maps in Stable Bundles: Where Analysis Algebra and Topology Meet |
1989 | Mary F. Wheeler | Large Scale Modeling of Problems Arising in Flow in Porous Media |
1990 | Bhama Srinivasan | The Invasion of Geometry into Finite Group Theory |
1991 | Alexandra Bellow | Almost Everywhere Convergence: The Case for the Ergodic Viewpoint |
1992 | Nancy Kopell | Oscillators and Networks of Them: Which Differences Make a Difference |
1993 | Linda Keen | Hyperbolic Geometry and Spaces of Riemann Surfaces |
1994 | Lesley Sibner | Analysis in Gauge Theory |
1995 | Judith D. Sally | Measuring Noetherian Rings |
1996 | Olga Oleinik | On Some Homogenization Problems for Differential Operators |
1997 | Linda Preiss Rothschild | How Do Real Manifolds Live in Complex Space |
1998 | Dusa McDuff | Symplectic Structures - A New Approach to Geometry |
1999 | Krystyna M. Kuperberg | Aperiodic Dynamical Systems |
2000 | Margaret H. Wright | The Mathematics of Optimization |
2001 | Sun-Yung Alice Chang | Nonlinear Equations in Conformal Geometry |
2002 | Lenore Blum | Computing Over the Reals: Where Turing Meets Newton |
2003 | Jean Taylor | Five Little Crystals and How They Grew |
2004 | Svetlana Katok | Symbolic Dynamics for Geodesic Flows |
2005 | Lai-Sang Young | From Limit Cycles to Strange Attractors |
2006 | Ingrid Daubechies | Mathematical Results and Challenges in Learning Theory |
2007 | Karen Vogtmann | Automorphisms of Groups, Outer Space, and Beyond |
2008 | Audrey A. Terras | Fun With Zeta Functions of Graphs |
2009 | Fan Chung Graham | New Directions in Graph Theory |
2010 | Carolyn S. Gordon | You Can't Hear the Shape of a Manifold |
2011 | Susan Montgomery | Orthogonal Representations: From Groups to Hopf Algebras |
2012 | Barbara Keyfitz | Conservation Laws - Not Exactly a la Noether |
2013 | Raman Parimala | A Hasse principle for quadratic forms over function fields |
2014 | Georgia Benkart | Walking on Graphs the Representation Theory Way |
2015 | Wen-Ching Winnie Li | Modular forms for congruence and noncongruence |
2016 | Karen E. Smith | The Power of Noether's Ring Theory in Understanding Singularities of Complex Algebraic Varieties |
2017 | Lisa Jeffrey | Cohomology of Symplectic Quotients |
2018 | Jill Pipher | Nonsmooth Boundary Value Problems |
2019 | Bryna Kra | Dynamics of systems with low complexity |
2020 | Birgit Speh | Branching Laws for Representations of Non Compact Orthogonal Groups |
2021 | Lecture cancelled in 2021 (see above [3] ) | |
2022 | Marianna Csörnyei | The Kakeya needle problem for rectifiable sets |
2023 | Laura DeMarco | Rigidity and uniformity in algebraic dynamics |
2024 | Anne Schilling | TBA |
References: [4] [5] [6] |
Year | Name |
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1994 | Olga Ladyzhenskaya |
1998 | Cathleen Synge Morawetz |
2002 | Hesheng Hu |
2006 | Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat |
2010 | Idun Reiten |
2014 | Georgia Benkart |
2018 | Sun-Yung Alice Chang |
2022 | Marie-France Vignéras |
References: [7] |
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
Marianna Csörnyei is a Hungarian mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Chicago. She does research in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and geometric nonlinear functional analysis. She proved the equivalence of the zero measure notions of infinite dimensional Banach spaces.
Dusa McDuff FRS CorrFRSE is an English mathematician who works on symplectic geometry. She was the first recipient of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, was a Noether Lecturer, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is currently the Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College.
Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman is an American mathematician, specializing in low-dimensional topology. She has made contributions to the study of knots, 3-manifolds, mapping class groups of surfaces, geometric group theory, contact structures and dynamical systems. Birman is research professor emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she has been since 1973.
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.
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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.
Andrea Louise Bertozzi is an American mathematician. Her research interests are in non-linear partial differential equations and applied mathematics.
Georgia McClure Benkart was an American mathematician who was known for her work in the structure and representation theory of Lie algebras and related algebraic structures. She published over 130 journal articles and co-authored three American Mathematical Society memoirs in four broad categories: modular Lie algebras; combinatorics of Lie algebra representations; graded algebras and superalgebras; and quantum groups and related structures.
This is a timeline of women in mathematics.
Mara Dicle Neusel was a mathematician, author, teacher and an advocate for women in mathematics. The focus of her mathematical work was on invariant theory, which can be briefly described as the study of group actions and their fixed points.
Laura Grace DeMarco is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University, whose research concerns dynamical systems and complex analysis.
Linda Preiss Rothschild is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. Her thesis research concerned Lie groups, but subsequently her interests broadened to include also polynomial factorization, partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, and the theory of several complex variables.
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Lai-Sang Lily Young is a Hong Kong-born American mathematician who holds the Henry & Lucy Moses Professorship of Science and is a professor of mathematics and neural science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. Her research interests include dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory, probability theory, statistical mechanics, and neuroscience. She is particularly known for introducing the method of Markov returns in 1998, which she used to prove exponential correlation delay in Sinai billiards and other hyperbolic dynamical systems.
Emmy Murphy is an American mathematician and a professor at Princeton University who works in the area of symplectic topology, contact geometry and geometric topology.
Anne Schilling is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics, representation theory, and mathematical physics. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Davis.
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