The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are pleased to announce that Professor Annalisa Buffa will be the 2023 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. The Kovalevsky Lecture will be delivered at the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023) taking place in Tokyo, Japan, August 20 – 25, 2023.
The Kovalevsky Lecture honors Sonia Kovalevsky (1850–1891), the most widely known Russian mathematician of the late 19th century. In 1874, Kovalevsky received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Göttingen and was appointed lecturer at the University of Stockholm in 1883. Kovalevsky did her most important work in the theory of differential equations. Buffa was recommended for this award by a joint AWM-SIAM Kovalevsky Selection Committee.