Marta Lewicka (born 23 November 1972) is a
Polish
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-American professor of
mathematics
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at the
University of Pittsburgh, specializing in
mathematical analysis. Lewicka has contributed results in the theory of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws,
fluid dynamics
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,
calculus of variations
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and functionals, to find maxima and minima of functionals: mappings from a set of functions t ...
, nonlinear elasticity, nonlinear potential theory and
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s.
Career
Lewicka earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics in 1996 from the
University of Gdańsk, and a second engineering bachelor's degree in
computer science in 1998 from
Częstochowa University of Technology
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.
She completed her Ph.D. in 2000 from the
International School for Advanced Studies in
Trieste,
Italy under the supervision of
Alberto Bressan
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.
After postdoctoral research at the
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in
Leipzig,
Germany and a term as L.E. Dickson Instructor at the
University of Chicago, she joined the
University of Minnesota faculty in 2005. She moved in 2010 to
Rutgers University, and again in 2011 to the
University of Pittsburgh.
[Curriculum vitae](_blank)
(2018)
In 2016, she gave an AMS invited address at the AMS/MAA Joint Mathematical Meetings in the area of nonlinear elasticity and geometry of prestrained materials. In 2017, she gave a Howard Rowlee Lecture. In 2017, she received Professor's scientific title, awarded in Poland by the President of the Republic of Poland. In 2018, she received a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics. She was elected a
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the Class of 2021,
with citation "For contributions to partial differential equations, calculus of variations, and continuum mechanics." In 2022 she was a fellow of the Lady Davis Foundation and a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In 2023-2024 she is the Vice Chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations.
Books
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External links
Marta Lewicka's Home PageMathematical Genealogy of Marta LewickaNotices of The American Mathematical Society expository paper based on Lewicka's AMS Invited address, pages 8-11
See also
* List of Polish mathematicians
References
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1972 births
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
Polish women mathematicians
20th-century Polish mathematicians
21st-century Polish mathematicians
University of Gdańsk alumni
University of Minnesota faculty
Rutgers University faculty
University of Pittsburgh faculty
21st-century American women mathematicians
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society