Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize

The Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize is an annual prize in mathematics, awarded by the Association for Women in Mathematics to honor outstanding research by a female mathematician who has recently earned tenure. The prize funds the winner to spend a semester as a visiting faculty member at Cornell University, working with the faculty there and presenting a distinguished lecture on their research. ^{[1] [2]} It is named after Ruth I. Michler (1967–2000), a German-American mathematician born at Cornell, who died in a road accident at the age of 33. ^[3]

The award was first offered in 2007. Its winners and their lectures have included: ^{[1] [2] [4]}

• Rebecca Goldin (2007), "The Geometry of Polygons"
• Irina Mitrea (2008), "Boundary-Value Problems for Higher-Order Elliptic Operators"
• Maria Gordina (2009), "Lie's Third Theorem in Infinite Dimensions"
• Patricia Hersh (2010), "Regular CS Complexes, Total Positivity and Bruhat Order"
• Anna Mazzucato (2011), "The Analysis of Incompressible Fluids at High Reynolds Numbers"
• Ling Long (2012), "Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer Congruences"
• Megumi Harada (2013), "Newton-Okounkov bodies and integrable systems"
• Sema Salur (2014), "Manifolds with G2 structure and beyond"
• Malabika Pramanik (2015), "Needles, Bushes, Hairbrushes, and Polynomials"
• Pallavi Dani (2016), "Large-scale geometry of right-angled Coxeter groups"
• Julia Gordon (2017), "Wilkie's theorem and (ineffective) uniform bounds"
• Julie Bergner (2018), "2-Segal structures and the Waldhausen S-construction"
• Anna Skripka (2019), "Untangling noncommutativity with operator integrals"
• Shabnam Akhtari (2021), "Representation of integers by binary forms"
• Emily E. Witt (2022), "Local cohomology: An algebraic tool capturing geometric data"
• Lauren M. Childs (2023), "Modeling infectious disease dynamics: A case study of malaria immunity"
• Alexandra Seceleanu (2024)
• Ling Xiao (2025)

See also

• List of awards honoring women
• List of mathematics awards

References

1. Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prizes, Association for Women in Mathematics , retrieved 2019-10-26
2. "The Ruth I Michler Memorial Prize of the AWM", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive , University of St Andrews , retrieved 2025-04-07
3. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ruth Ingrid Michler", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive , University of St Andrews
4. Michler Lecture Series, Cornell University, retrieved 2019-10-26. See also Department of Mathematics Michler Lecture Series - Julie Bergner, The University of Virginia. Talk Title: 2-Segal structures and the Waldhausen S-construction, Cornell University, retrieved 2019-10-26