Suzanne Lenhart Explained

Suzanne Marie Lenhart
Birth Name:Suzanne Marie Lenhart
Birth Date:19 November 1954
Nationality:American
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:University of Tennessee
Alma Mater:Bellarmine College
University of Kentucky
Thesis Title:Partial Differential Equations from Dynamic Programming Equations
Thesis Year:1981
Doctoral Advisor:Lawrence Craig Evans

Suzanne Marie Lenhart (born November 19, 1954)[1] is an American mathematician who works in partial differential equations, optimal control and mathematical biology. She is a Chancellor's Professor of mathematics at the University of Tennessee,[2] an associate director for education and outreach at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, and a part-time researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.[3]

Education and career

Lenhart grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and was educated in the Catholic school system there. She did her undergraduate studies at Bellarmine College in Louisville, where Ralph Grimaldi encouraged her to prepare for graduate studies in mathematics and gave her additional tutoring in number theory. She entered graduate school at the University of Kentucky not knowing what she would specialize in, but in her second year chose partial differential equations.[4] She completed her doctorate in 1981 under the supervision of Lawrence C. Evans, and immediately took a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Tennessee. She added a second part-time position at Oak Ridge in 1987.[4]

Awards and honors

Lenhart was AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer in 1997,[5] president of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2001–2003,[6] and AWM/SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer in 2010 "in recognition of her significant research in partial differential equations, ordinary differential equations, and optimal control".[7] She was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010, and became a Chancellor's Professor[2] and SIAM Fellow in 2011.[8] In 2013, she was selected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in the inaugural class.[9] In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[10] In 2022, Lenhart was invited as an AAAS-AMS address selection committee member.[11]

Selected publications

Textbooks
Research papers

External links

Notes and References

  1. Birth date from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-11-29.
  2. http://www.math.utk.edu/awards/#chancellor 2008-present Awards & Announcements, Department of Mathematics: Suzanne Lenhart Appointed Chancellor's Professor
  3. http://www.nimbios.org/personnel/dir_lenhart Suzanne Lenhart: Associate NIMBioS Director for Education and Outreach
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  5. https://sites.google.com/site/awmmath/programs/falconer-lectures/past-recipients Past Falconer Lecturers
  6. https://sites.google.com/site/awmmath/awm/history AWM History: AWM Officers
  7. http://www.maa.org/news/math-news/suzanne-lenhart-will-deliver-the-2010-awm-siam-sonia-kovalevsky-lecture Suzanne Lenhart Will Deliver the 2010 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture
  8. http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2011 SIAM Fellows Class of 2011
  9. Web site: Fellows Program. American Mathematical Society. 17 May 2020.
  10. Web site: 2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows Program. awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/. Association for Women in Mathematics. 9 January 2021.
  11. Web site: AMS Committees . 2023-03-29 . American Mathematical Society . en.
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