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 and

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, both known for their contributions to mathematics in

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.Krieger–Nelson Prize

Recipients

While the award has largely been awarded to a female mathematician working at a

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, 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

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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 * 1999 Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann * 2000 Kanta Gupta * 2001 Lisa Jeffrey * 2002

Cindy Greenwood Priscilla E. (Cindy) Greenwood (born 1937) is a Canadian mathematician who is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. She is known for her research in probability theory.. Reprinted in ''Stochastics: A Festschrift ...

* 2003

Leah Keshet Leah Edelstein-Keshet is an Israeli-Canadian mathematical biologist. Edelstein-Keshet is known for her contributions to the field of mathematical biology and biophysicHer research spans many topics including sub-cellular biology, ecology, and bi ...

* 2004 ''Not Awarded'' * 2005

Barbara Keyfitz Barbara Lee Keyfitz is a Canadian-American mathematician, the Dr. Charles Saltzer Professor of Mathematics at Ohio State University. In her research, she studies nonlinear partial differential equations and associated conservation laws. Professi ...

* 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 depa ...

* 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 Rachel Ann Kuske (born 1965) is an American-Canadian applied mathematician and Professor and Chair of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professional career Kuske received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern Univer ...

* 2012

Ailana Fraser Ailana Margaret Fraser is a Canadian mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. She is known for her work in geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces.

* 2013

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

* 2014

Gail Wolkowicz Gail Susan Kohl Wolkowicz is a Canadian researcher in differential equations, dynamical systems, and mathematical biology who works as a professor of mathematics and statistics at McMaster University. She is known, among other contributions, for ...

* 2015 Jane Ye * 2016

Malabika Pramanik Malabika Pramanik is a Canadian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Her interests include harmonic analysis, complex variables, and partial differential equations. Education and career ...

* 2017 Stephanie van Willigenburg * 2018

Megumi Harada Megumi Harada is a mathematician who works as a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at McMaster University, where she holds a tier-two Canada Research Chair in Equivariant Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry. Research Harad ...

* 2019

Julia Gordon Julia Gordon is a mathematician at the University of British Columbia whose research concerns algebraic geometry, including representation theory, -adic groups, motivic integration, and the Langlands program. Gordon earned her PhD at the Univer ...

* 2020

Sujatha Ramdorai Sujatha Ramdorai (born 1962) is an algebraic number theorist known for her work on Iwasawa theory. She is a professor of mathematics and Canada Research Chair at University of British Columbia, Canada. She was previously a professor at T ...

* 2021 Anita Layton * 2022

Matilde Lalín Matilde Noemí Lalín is an Argentine-Canadian mathematician specializing in number theory and known for her work on L-functions, Mahler measure, and their connections. She is a professor of mathematics at the Université de Montréal. Educa ...

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Krieger–Nelson Prize

. {{DEFAULTSORT:Krieger-Nelson Prize Awards of the Canadian Mathematical Society Science awards honoring women Awards established in 1995 Lists of women scientists Lists of mathematicians by award Women in mathematics

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