Catherine Sulem facts for kids

Catherine Sulem (born in 1955) is an amazing mathematician and a talented violinist. She works as a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada.

She has also written a special book with her brother, Pierre-Louis Sulem. It's called "Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation: Self-Focusing Instability and Wave Collapse." This book is about understanding very complex math problems related to waves.

Awards and Special Recognitions

Catherine Sulem has received many important awards for her work in mathematics:

• She won the Krieger–Nelson Prize. This award recognized her important discoveries about how waves behave, especially in problems like the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation and water waves.
• She is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. This means she is recognized as one of the top mathematicians in the field.
• In 2015, she was chosen as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. This is a high honour for Canadian scholars and artists.
• In 2018, the Canadian Mathematical Society also named her as one of their first fellows.
• In 2019, she gave a special talk called the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture. Her talk was about The Dynamics of Ocean Waves at a big international math conference. This lecture is given by two important math groups, the Association of Women in Mathematics and SIAM.
• In 2020, Sulem received the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize. This is the top award for math research in Canada.
• In 2023, she was elected as a SIAM Fellow, another recognition from a leading group in applied mathematics.