supported by the US Department of Energy, the Association for Women in Mathematics,
and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

About the Series | The Lecturers | Call for Nominations

About the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Series

AWM and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) established the annual Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture to highlight significant contributions of women to applied or computational mathematics. This lecture is given annually at the SIAM Annual Meeting. The lectureship may be awarded to anyone in the scientific or engineering community whose work highlights the achievements of women in applied or computational mathematics.

This is a jointly awarded prize (AWM-SIAM).

By agreement, AWM and SIAM pay for the winner's expenses to travel to the SIAM meeting and also local expenses. There is no cash award. The Department of Energy is the sponsor covering expenses for this lecture series.

Nominations for this award are solicited. Nominations will remain active for a total of two years (one year beyond the initial nomination). The due date is Novemeber 1 of the year before the lecture is given.

The AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture was given for the first time on June 20, 2003 at the SIAM/CAIMS/SCMAI meeting in Montréal. Biographical profiles of past lecturers along with abstracts of their presentations are given below.

Sonia Kovalevsky (1850-1891) was the most widely known Russian mathematician of the late 19th century. In 1874, She received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Gottingen and was appointed lecturer at the University of Stockholm in 1883. Kovalevsky did her most imporant work in the theory of differential equations.

Call for Nominations for the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture

Letters of nomination should include an outline of the nominee’s contributions to applied or computational mathematics, along with a list of some of her most important research papers.

Nominations are kept active for two years.

Send five complete copies of nomination material for this award to:

The AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Selection Committee
Association for Women in Mathematics
11240 Waples Mill Road
Suite 200
Fairfax, Virginia 22030

Questions? Call 703-934-0163 or email awm@awm-math.org.