Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics explained

Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
Reward:$5,000
Awarded For:outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the previous six years
Presenter:American Mathematical Society
Year:1991
Holder:Panagiota Daskalopoulos and Nataša Šešum (2023)

The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, also called the Satter Prize, is one of twenty-one prizes given out by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).[1] It is presented biennially in recognition of an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the previous six years.[2] The award was funded in 1990 using a donation from Joan Birman, in memory of her sister, Ruth Lyttle Satter,[3] who worked primarily in biological sciences, and was a proponent for equal opportunities for women in science.[4] First awarded in 1991, the award is intended to "honor [Satter's] commitment to research and to encourage women in science".[5] The winner is selected by the council of the AMS, based on the recommendation of a selection committee.[5] The prize is awarded at the Joint Mathematics Meetings during odd numbered years, and has always carried a modest cash reward. Since 2003, the prize has been $5,000,[5] [6] while from 1997 to 2001, the prize came with $1,200,[7] and prior to that with $4,000.[8] If a joint award is made, the prize money is split between the recipients.

Dusa McDuff was the first recipient of the award, for her work on symplectic geometry.[9] A joint award was made for the only time in 2001, when Karen E. Smith and Sijue Wu shared the award.[10] The 2013 prize winner was Maryam Mirzakhani, who, in 2014, was the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, which is considered to be the highest honor a mathematician can receive.[11] [12] She won both awards for her work on "the geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces".[13] The most recent winners are Panagiota Daskalopoulos and Nataša Šešum, who were awarded the prize in 2023 "for groundbreaking work in the study of ancient solutions to geometric evolution equations".[14]

The Association for Women in Science have a similarly titled award, the Ruth Satter Memorial Award, which is a cash prize of $1,000 for "an outstanding graduate student who interrupted her education for at least 3 years to raise a family".[15] [16]

Recipients

Satter Prize recipients and rationale[17]
scope=col Yearscope=col class=unsortableImagescope=col width=180 Recipientscope=col class=unsortable Rationale
align=center 1991scope=row "for her outstanding work during the past five years on symplectic geometry"
align=center 1993scope=row "for her leading role in the investigation of the statistical (or ergodic) properties of dynamical systems"
align=center 1995scope=row "for her deep contributions to the study of partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds and in particular for her work on extremal problems in spectral geometry and the compactness of isospectral metrics within a fixed conformal class on a compact 3-manifold"
align=center 1997scope=row "for her deep and beautiful analysis of wavelets and their applications"
align=center 1999scope=row "for her number theoretical research on p-adic L-functions and Iwasawa theory"
align=center rowspan=2 2001scope=row "for her outstanding work in commutative algebra"
scope=row "for her work on a long-standing problem in the water wave equation"
align=center 2003scope=row "for her outstanding work in 3-dimensional topology"
align=center 2005scope=row "for her pioneering work on non-perturbative quasiperiodic localization, in particular for results in her papers (1) Metal–insulator transition for the almost Mathieu operator, Ann. of Math. (2) 150 (1999), no. 3, 1159–1175, and (2) with J. Bourgain, Absolutely continuous spectrum for 1D quasiperiodic operators, Invent. Math. 148 (2002), no. 3, 453–463"
align=center 2007scope=row "for her deep contributions to algebraic geometry, and in particular for her recent solutions to two long-standing open problems: the Kodaira problem (On the homotopy types of compact Kähler and complex projective manifolds, Inventiones Mathematicae, 157 (2004), no. 2, 329–343) and Green's conjecture (Green's canonical syzygy conjecture for generic curves of odd genus, Compositio Mathematica, 141 (2005), no. 5, 1163–1190; and Green's generic syzygy conjecture for curves of even genus lying on a K3 surface, Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 4 (2002), no. 4, 363–404)"
align=center 2009scope=row "for her fundamental work on the hydrodynamic limits of the Boltzmann equation in the kinetic theory of gases"
align=center 2011scope=row "for her remarkable contributions to the field of ergodic theory of partially hyperbolic dynamical systems"
align=center 2013scope=row "for her deep contributions to the theory of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces"
align=center 2015scope=row "for her fundamental contributions to the fields of dynamics on homogeneous spaces, discrete subgroups of Lie groups, and applications to number theory"
align=center 2017scope=row "for her fundamental contributions to complex dynamics, potential theory, and the emerging field of arithmetic dynamics"
align=center 2019scope=row "for her groundbreaking work in discrete geometry and her spectacular solution to the sphere-packing problem in dimension eight."
align=center 2021scope=row "for her work (much of it joint with Maksym Radziwiłł) opening up the field of multiplicative functions in short intervals in a completely unexpected and very fruitful way..."
align=center rowspan=2 2023scope=row "for groundbreaking work in the study of ancient solutions to geometric evolution equations"
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See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Prizes and Awards . . September 14, 2017.
  2. Web site: Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics . September 13, 2017 . American Mathematical Society.
  3. Book: Complexities: Women in Mathematics . Complexities: Women in Mathematics . . 2005 . 0-691-11462-5 . Case, Bettye . Bettye Anne Case . 97 . Leggett, Anne . Anne M. Leggett.
  4. Web site: Educational Awards: Ruth Satter . . https://archive.today/20130102015633/http://www.awis.affiniscape.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=61 . January 2, 2013 . September 14, 2017 . dead . mdy-all .
  5. April 2017 . 2017 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize . Notices of the AMS . . 64 . 4 . 316.
  6. April 2003 . 2003 Satter Prize . Notices of the AMS . . 50 . 4 . 474.
  7. March 1997 . 1997 Satter Prize . Notices of the AMS . . 44 . 3 . 348.
  8. April 1995 . 1995 Satter Prize . Notices of the AMS . . 42 . 4 . 459.
  9. Book: Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary . registration . Morrow, Charlene . Peri, Teri . Greenwood Press . Westport, Connecticut . 1998 . 0-313-29131-4 . 140.
  10. April 2001 . 2001 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize . Notices of the AMS . . 48 . 4 . 411–12.
  11. News: August 22, 2006 . Reclusive Russian turns down math world's highest honour . September 13, 2017 . . Associated Press.
  12. News: Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win maths' Fields Medal, dies . . July 15, 2017 . September 13, 2017.
  13. News: Maryam Mirzakhani, First Woman and Iranian to Win Fields Medal, Dies at 40 . . July 15, 2017 . September 13, 2017.
  14. Web site: November 10, 2022 . Daskalopoulos, Šešum to Receive 2023 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize . 2024-01-13 . . en.
  15. Web site: AAS Committee on the Status of Women . AASWOMEN . January 2004 . September 14, 2017.
  16. Book: The Grants Register 1997 . Austin, Ruth . 189 . Macmillan Press . 1996 . New York . 978-0-312-15898-9.
  17. Web site: Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics Recipients . February 6, 2024 . American Mathematical Society.