The Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize is an annual prize in mathematics, awarded by the

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

to honor outstanding research by a

female mathematician This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics. These include mathematical research, mathematics education, the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests. ...

who has recently earned

tenure Tenure is a type of academic appointment that protects its holder from being fired or laid off except for cause, or under extraordinary circumstances such as financial exigency or program discontinuation. Academic tenure originated in the United ...

. The prize funds the winner to spend a semester as a visiting faculty member at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

, working with the faculty there and presenting a distinguished lecture on their research. It is named after Ruth I. Michler (1967–2000), a German-American mathematician born at Cornell, who died in a road accident at the age of 33. The award was first offered in 2007. Its winners and their lectures have included: * Rebecca Goldin (2007), "The Geometry of Polygons" *

Irina Mitrea Irina Mitrea is a Romanian-American mathematician who works as professor and department chair at the Department of Mathematics of Temple University. She is known for her contributions to harmonic analysis, particularly on the interface of this fie ...

(2008), "Boundary-Value Problems for Higher-Order Elliptic Operators" * Maria Gordina (2009), "Lie's Third Theorem in Infinite Dimensions" *

Patricia Hersh Patricia Lynn Hersh (born 1973) is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. Her research concerns algebraic combinatorics, topological combinatorics, and the connections between combinatorics a ...

(2010), "Regular CS Complexes, Total Positivity and Bruhat Order" * Anna Mazzucato (2011), "The Analysis of Incompressible Fluids at High Reynolds Numbers" * Ling Long (2012), "Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer Congruences" * Megumi Harada (2013), "Newton-Okounkov bodies and integrable systems" * Sema Salur (2014), "Manifolds with G2 structure and beyond" * Malabika Pramanik (2015), "Needles, Bushes, Hairbrushes, and Polynomials" * Pallavi Dani (2016), "Large-scale geometry of right-angled Coxeter groups" * Julia Gordon (2017), "Wilkie's theorem and (ineffective) uniform bounds" * Julie Bergner (2018), "2-Segal structures and the Waldhausen S-construction" * Anna Skripka (2019), "Untangling noncommutativity with operator integrals" * Shabnam Akhtari (2021), "Representation of integers by binary forms" * Emily E. Witt (2022), "Local cohomology: An algebraic tool capturing geometric data" *

Lauren M. Childs Lauren Maressa Childs is an American mathematician specialising in mathematical and computational modelling applied to topics in biology, particularly spread of infectious disease. She is an associate professor of mathematics and Cliff and Agne ...

(2023), "Modeling infectious disease dynamics: A case study of malaria immunity" *

Alexandra Seceleanu Alexandra Seceleanu is a Romanian mathematician specializing in commutative algebra. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She was awarded the 2024–2025 Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize. Educa ...

(2024) * Ling Xiao (2025)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Michler Memorial Prize, Ruth I. Awards established in 2007 Awards and prizes of the Association for Women in Mathematics 2007 establishments in New York (state) Cornell University Science lecture series Science awards honoring women

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