Noether Lecture
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The Association for Women in Mathematics
(AWM) annually presents the Noether Lectures to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences. These one-hour expository lectures are presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings each January. As described by the AWM, Emmy Noether
was "one of the great mathematicians of her time, someone who worked and struggled for what she loved and believed in. Her life and work remain a tremendous inspiration."
The Noether Lecturers:
Each lecturer has been profiled in a commemorative booklet.
Association for Women in Mathematics
The Association for Women in Mathematics is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences. Equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences are promoted. The AWM was...
(AWM) annually presents the Noether Lectures to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences. These one-hour expository lectures are presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings each January. As described by the AWM, Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
Amalie Emmy Noether was an influential German mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. Described by David Hilbert, Albert Einstein and others as the most important woman in the history of mathematics, she revolutionized the theories of...
was "one of the great mathematicians of her time, someone who worked and struggled for what she loved and believed in. Her life and work remain a tremendous inspiration."
The Noether Lecturers:
Each lecturer has been profiled in a commemorative booklet.
- Carolyn S. GordonCarolyn S. GordonCarolyn S. Gordon is a mathematician and professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College since 1992. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from the Purdue University, then studied at the Washington University, earning her Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics in 1979. Her doctoral advisor was...
, 2010 - Fan Chung Graham, 2009
- Audrey TerrasAudrey TerrasAudrey Terras is an American mathematician who works primarily in number theory. Her research has focused on quantum chaos and on various types of zeta functions.-Life and education:...
, 2008 - Karen VogtmannKaren VogtmannKaren Vogtmann is a U.S. mathematician working primarily in the area of geometric group theory. She is known for having introduced, in a 1986 paper with Marc Culler, an object now known as the Culler–Vogtmann Outer space...
, 2007 - Ingrid DaubechiesIngrid DaubechiesIngrid Daubechies is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She was between 2004 and 2011 the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in the mathematics and applied mathematics departments at Princeton University. In January 2011 she moved to Duke University as a Professor in mathematics. She is the first...
, 2006 - Lai-Sang Young, 2005
- Svetlana Katok, 2004
- Jean E. Taylor, 2003
- Lenore BlumLenore BlumLenore Blum is a distinguished professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. Her dissertation was on Generalized Algebraic Structures and her advisor was Gerald Sacks...
, 2002 - Hesheng HuHu HeshengHu Hesheng , is a female mathematician. She is the former vice-president of Chinese Mathematical Society, the former president of Shanghai Mathematical Society, and an academician of Chinese Academy of Science...
, 2002 ICM - Sun-Yung Alice ChangSun-Yung Alice ChangAlice Chang is a Chinese American mathematician specializing in aspects of mathematical analysis ranging from harmonic analysis and partial differential equations to differential geometry. She is a professor of mathematics and chair of the department at Princeton University.-Life:Chang was born in...
, 2001 - Margaret H. Wright, 2000
- Krystyna Kuperberg, 1999
- Cathleen Synge MorawetzCathleen Synge MorawetzCathleen Synge Morawetz is a mathematician. 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...
, 1998 ICM - Dusa McDuffDusa McDuffDusa McDuff is an English mathematician. She was born in London, England as the daughter of the noted biologist Conrad Hal Waddington. Her mother, Justin, born Justin Blanco White, was an architect, while her maternal grandmother was the feminist Amber Reeves, a lover of H.G. Wells and an author...
, 1998 - Linda Preiss Rothschild, 1997
- Ol'ga OleinikOlga Arsenievna OleinikOlga Arsenievna Oleinik was a Soviet mathematician who conducted pioneering work on the theory of partial differential equations, the theory of strongly inhomogeneous elastic media, and the mathematical theory of boundary layers. She was a student of Ivan Petrovsky...
, 1996 - Judith D. SallyJudith D. SallyJudith D. Sally is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Northwestern University. Her research is in Commutative Algebra.-Career:...
, 1995 - Lesley SibnerLesley SibnerLeslie Sibner is a 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...
, 1994 - Olga Ladyzhenskaya, 1994 ICM
- Linda KeenLinda KeenLinda Jo Goldway Keen is a mathematician and Professor of Mathematics and Computer science at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of City University of New York where she has worked since 1965. As a high school student she attended the Bronx High School of Science...
, 1993 - Nancy KopellNancy KopellNancy Jane Kopell is an American mathematician, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University, and Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics.She grew up in the Bronx....
, 1992 - Alexandra BellowAlexandra BellowAlexandra Bellow , is a mathematician from Bucharest, Romania, who has made substantial contributions to the fields of ergodic theory, probability and analysis.-Biography:...
, 1991 - Bhama SrinivasanBhama SrinivasanBhama Srinivasan is a mathematician known for her work in the representation theory of finite groups. Her contributions were honored with the 1990 Noether Lecture. She served as President of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 1981 to 1983. She earned her Ph.D. in 1960 with her...
, 1990 - Mary F. Wheeler, 1989
- Karen K. Uhlenbeck, 1988
- Joan S. Birman, 1987
- Yvonne Choquet-BruhatYvonne Choquet-BruhatYvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a French mathematician and physicist. She was the first woman to be elected to the Académie des Sciences Française and is a Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur....
, 1986 - Jane Cronin Scanlon, 1985
- Mary Ellen RudinMary Ellen RudinMary Ellen Rudin is an American mathematician.Born Mary Ellen Estill, she attended the University of Texas, completing her B.A. in 1944 and her Ph.D. in 1949, under Robert Lee Moore. In 1953, she married the mathematician Walter Rudin. Following her mentor Moore, her research centers on point-set...
, 1984 - Cathleen Synge MorawetzCathleen Synge MorawetzCathleen Synge Morawetz is a mathematician. 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...
, 1983 - Julia RobinsonJulia RobinsonJulia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician best known for her work on decision problems and Hilbert's Tenth Problem.-Background and education:...
, 1982 - Olga Taussky-Todd, 1981
- F. Jessie MacWilliams, 1980