The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are pleased to announce that Professor Yongjie Jessica Zhang will be the 2025 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. The Kovalevsky Lecture will be delivered at the 2025 SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting taking place in Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 28 - August 1, 2025. Press release.

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. Zhang was recommended for this award by a joint AWM-SIAM Kovalevsky Selection Committee (Alina Chertock (Chair), Claudia Falcon, Judith Hill, and Noemi Petra).