The Etta Z. Falconer Lecture is an award and lecture series which honors "women who have made distinguished contributions to the mathematical sciences or mathematics education". It is sponsored by the

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and the Mathematical Association of America. The lectures began in 1996 and were named after the mathematician Etta Z. Falconer in 2004 "in memory of Falconer's profound vision and accomplishments in enhancing the movement of minorities and women into scientific careers". The recipient presents the lecture at

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each summer.

Recipients

The Falconer Lecturers have been: * 1996

Karen E. Smith Karen Ellen Smith (born 1965 in Red Bank, New Jersey) is an American mathematician, specializing in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She completed her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Princeton University before earning her PhD in ...

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, "Calculus mod p" * 1997 Suzanne M. Lenhart,

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, "Applications of Optimal Control to Various Population Models" * 1998

Margaret H. Wright Margaret H. Wright (born February 18, 1944) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. She is a Silver Professor of Computer Science and former Chair of the Computer Science department at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New ...

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, "The Interior-Point Revolution in Constrained Optimization" * 1999

Chuu-Lian Terng Chuu-Lian Terng () is a Taiwanese-American mathematician. Her research areas are differential geometry and integrable systems, with particular interests in completely integrable Hamiltonian partial differential equations and their relations to di ...

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU) is a private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in Charlotte, North C ...

, "Geometry and Visualization of Surfaces" * 2000

Audrey Terras Audrey Anne Terras (born September 10, 1942) is an American mathematician who works primarily in number theory. Her research has focused on quantum chaos and on various types of zeta functions. Early life and education Audrey Terras was born Sep ...

University of California at San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is th ...

, "Finite Quantum Chaos" * 2001 Pat Shure,

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, "The Scholarship of Learning and Teaching: A Look Back and a Look Ahead" * 2002

Annie Selden Annie Laurer Alexander Selden is an expert in mathematics education. She is a professor emeritus at Tennessee Technological University, and an adjunct professor at New Mexico State University. She was one of the original founders of the Association ...

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, "Two Research Traditions Separated by a Common Subject: Mathematics and Mathematics Education" * 2003

Katherine Puckett Layton Katherine Puckett Layton is an American mathematics educator and the author of mathematics textbooks. Education and career Layton received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and later obtaine ...

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, "What I Learned in Forty Years in Beverly Hills 90212" * 2004 Bozenna Pasik-Duncan,

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"Mathematics Education of Tomorrow" * 2005

Fern Hunt Fern Yvette Hunt (born January 14, 1948) is an American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology. She currently works as a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she condu ...

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, "Techniques for Visualizing Frequency Patterns in DNA" * 2006

Trachette Jackson Trachette Levon Jackson (born July 24, 1972) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan and is known for work in mathematical oncology. She uses many different approaches, including continuous and ...

, "Cancer Modeling: From the Classical to the Contemporary" * 2007 Katherine St. John,

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, "Comparing Evolutionary Trees" * 2008

Rebecca Goldin Rebecca Freja Goldin is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematical sciences at George Mason University and director of the Statistical Assessment Service, a nonprofit organization associated with GMU that aims to improve t ...

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, "The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Media" * 2009

Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu Kate Adebola Okikiolu (born 1965) is a British mathematician. She is known for her work with elliptic differential operators as well as her work with inner-city children. Early life and education Okikiolu was born in 1965 in England. Her fathe ...

, "The Sum of Squares of Wavelengths of a Closed Surface" * 2010 Ami Radunskaya,

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, "Mathematical Challenges in the Treatment of Cancer" * 2011

Dawn Lott Dawn Alisha Lott is an applied mathematician at Delaware State University, where she is a professor in the department of physical and computational sciences and, since 2009, the director of the university's honors program. Research Lott's resea ...

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, "Mathematical Interventions for Aneurysm Treatment" * 2012 Karen D. King, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, "Because I Love Mathematics: The Role of Disciplinary Grounding in Mathematics Education" * 2013

Patricia Clark Kenschaft Patricia Clark Kenschaft (March 25, 1940 – November 20, 2022) was an American mathematician. She was a professor of mathematics at Montclair State University. She is known as a prolific author of books on mathematics, as a founder of PRIMES, the ...

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,"Improving Equity and Education: Why and How" * 2014

Marie A. Vitulli Marie A. Vitulli is an American mathematician and professor emerita at the University of Oregon. Mathematics Vitulli's research is in commutative algebra and applications to algebraic geometry. More specific topics in her research include def ...

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, "From Algebraic to Weak Subintegral Extensions in Algebra and Geometry" *2015

Erica N. Walker Erica Nicole Walker (born 1971) is an American mathematician and the Clifford Brewster Upton Professor of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she also serves as the Chairperson of the Department of Mathematic ...

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, "'A Multiplicity All at Once': Mathematics for Everyone, Everywhere" *2016 Izabella Laba,

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, "Harmonic Analysis and Additive Combinatorics on Fractals" *2017

Talithia Williams Talithia D. Williams is an American statistician and mathematician at Harvey Mudd College who researches the spatiotemporal structure of data. She was the first black woman to achieve tenure at Harvey Mudd College. Williams is an advocate for eng ...

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, "Not So Hidden Figures: Unveiling Mathematical Talent" *2018

Pamela Gorkin Pamela Gorkin is an American mathematician specializing in complex analysis and operator theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Bucknell University. Education and career Gorkin earned bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics from Michi ...

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, "Finding Ellipses" *2019 Tara Holm,

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, "Dance of the Astonished Topologist... or How I Left Squares and Hexes for Math" *2020 MathFest and Falconer Lecture canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic *2021 Bonita V. Saunders,

, “Complex Functions, Mesh Generation, and Hidden Figures in the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions” *2022

Suzanne Weekes Suzanne L. Weekes is the Executive Director of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She is also Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). She is a co-founder of the Mathematical Sciences Research I ...

, Executive Director of the

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(SIAM), "Continuity at Interfaces" *2023

Tatiana Toro Tatiana Toro is a Colombian-American mathematician at the University of Washington.. Her research is "at the interface of geometric measure theory, harmonic analysis and partial differential equations".. Toro was appointed director of the Simons ...

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and Director of SLMath, "Geometry of Measures"

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20190503221958/http://www.cirs.info/prix,langue.eng.html * https://awm-math.org/awards/falconer-lectures/ * http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/prizes.htm#falconer Mathematics awards Mathematics education awards Women in mathematics Awards of the Mathematical Association of America Awards and prizes of the Association for Women in Mathematics Lecture series Recurring events established in 1996 1996 establishments in the United States

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