The Krieger–Nelson Prize is presented by the

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in recognition of an outstanding woman in mathematics. It was first awarded in 1995. The award is named after

Cecilia Krieger Cypra Cecilia Krieger-Dunaij (9 April 1894 – 17 August 1974) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian (more specifically, Galicia (Central Europe), Galician)-born mathematician of Jewish ancestry who lived and worked in Canada. Krieger was the t ...

and Evelyn Nelson, both known for their contributions to

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.Krieger–Nelson Prize

Recipients

While the award has largely been awarded to a female mathematician working at a Canadian University, it has also been awarded to

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-born or -educated women working outside of the country. For example, Cathleen Morawetz, past president of the

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, and a faculty member at the

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(a division of

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) was awarded the Krieger–Nelson Prize in 1997. (Morawetz was educated at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

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). According to the call for applications, the award winner should be a "member of the Canadian mathematical community".Call for Applications Krieger–Nelson Prize Lectureship

. The recipient of the Krieger–Nelson Prize delivers a lecture to the

, typically during its summer meeting. * 1995 Nancy Reid * 1996 Olga Kharlampovich * 1997

Cathleen Synge Morawetz Cathleen Synge Morawetz (May 5, 1923 – August 8, 2017) was a Canadian mathematician who spent much of her career in the United States. Morawetz's research was mainly in the study of the partial differential equations governing fluid flow, parti ...

* 1998

Catherine Sulem Catherine Sulem (born 1955) is a mathematician and violinist at the University of Toronto. She has completed a monograph "Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation: Self-Focusing Instability and Wave Collapse" together with her brother Pierre-Louis Sulem, w ...

* 1999

Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC (8 June 1945 – 17 June 2022) was a Polish-Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Alberta, and the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Geometric Analysis.Kanta Gupta * 2001 Lisa Jeffrey * 2002 Cindy Greenwood * 2003 Leah Keshet * 2004 ''Not Awarded'' * 2005 Barbara Keyfitz * 2006 Penny Haxell * 2007

Pauline van den Driessche Pauline van den Driessche (born 1941) is a British and Canadian applied mathematician who is a professor emerita in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Victoria, where she has also held an affiliation in the departm ...

* 2008

Izabella Łaba Izabella Łaba (born 1966) is a Polish-Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Her main research specialties are harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics. Professio ...

* 2009 Yael Karshon * 2010 Lia Bronsard * 2011 Rachel Kuske * 2012 Ailana Fraser * 2013

Chantal David Chantal David (born 1964) is a French Canadians, French Canadian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Concordia University. Her interests include analytic number theory, statistics, arithmetic statistics, and random matrix the ...

* 2014 Gail Wolkowicz * 2015 Jane Ye * 2016 Malabika Pramanik * 2017 Stephanie van Willigenburg * 2018 Megumi Harada * 2019 Julia Gordon * 2020 Sujatha Ramdorai * 2021 Anita Layton * 2022 Matilde Lalín * 2023 Johanna G. Nešlehová * 2024 Renate Scheidler * 2025 Emmy Murphy

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Recipients

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