Noether Lecture facts for kids
The Noether Lecture is a very special talk series that celebrates women who have made huge and lasting contributions to mathematics. It was started in 1980 by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and was named after Emmy Noether, who was one of the most important mathematicians of her time. Since 2015, the lecture series has been supported by both the AWM and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Each year, the chosen mathematician gives their lecture at the big Joint Mathematics Meetings in January.
There's also another special talk called the ICM Emmy Noether Lecture. This one is supported by the International Mathematical Union. It started in 1994 and is given at the International Congress of Mathematicians, which happens every four years. In 2010, this lecture series became a permanent event.
In 2021, the Noether Lecture was planned to be given by Andrea Bertozzi from UCLA. However, it was cancelled during a time when many people were protesting against racial discrimination and police actions. Even though Andrea Bertozzi planned to talk about other math topics, she is also known for her research on the mathematics of policing. Some people felt that her research area was the reason for the cancellation.
Noether Lecturers: Celebrating Women in Math
This table lists the amazing women who have given the Noether Lecture and the topics they spoke about.
| Year | Name | Lecture title |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | F. Jessie MacWilliams | A Survey of Coding Theory |
| 1981 | Olga Taussky-Todd | The Many Aspects of Pythagorean Triangles |
| 1982 | Julia Robinson | Functional Equations in Arithmetic |
| 1983 | Cathleen S. Morawetz | How Do Perturbations of the Wave Equation Work |
| 1984 | Mary Ellen Rudin | Paracompactness |
| 1985 | Jane Cronin Scanlon | A Model of Cardiac Fiber: Problems in Singularly Perturbed Systems |
| 1986 | Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat | On Partial Differential Equations of Gauge Theories and General Relativity |
| 1987 | Joan S. Birman | Studying Links via Braids |
| 1988 | Karen K. Uhlenbeck | Moment Maps in Stable Bundles: Where Analysis Algebra and Topology Meet |
| 1989 | Mary F. Wheeler | Large Scale Modeling of Problems Arising in Flow in Porous Media |
| 1990 | Bhama Srinivasan | The Invasion of Geometry into Finite Group Theory |
| 1991 | Alexandra Bellow | Almost Everywhere Convergence: The Case for the Ergodic Viewpoint |
| 1992 | Nancy Kopell | Oscillators and Networks of Them: Which Differences Make a Difference |
| 1993 | Linda Keen | Hyperbolic Geometry and Spaces of Riemann Surfaces |
| 1994 | Lesley Sibner | Analysis in Gauge Theory |
| 1995 | Judith D. Sally | Measuring Noetherian Rings |
| 1996 | Olga Oleinik | On Some Homogenization Problems for Differential Operators |
| 1997 | Linda Preiss Rothschild | How Do Real Manifolds Live in Complex Space |
| 1998 | Dusa McDuff | Symplectic Structures - A New Approach to Geometry |
| 1999 | Krystyna M. Kuperberg | Aperiodic Dynamical Systems |
| 2000 | Margaret H. Wright | The Mathematics of Optimization |
| 2001 | Sun-Yung Alice Chang | Nonlinear Equations in Conformal Geometry |
| 2002 | Lenore Blum | Computing Over the Reals: Where Turing Meets Newton |
| 2003 | Jean Taylor | Five Little Crystals and How They Grew |
| 2004 | Svetlana Katok | Symbolic Dynamics for Geodesic Flows |
| 2005 | Lai-Sang Young | From Limit Cycles to Strange Attractors |
| 2006 | Ingrid Daubechies | Mathematical Results and Challenges in Learning Theory |
| 2007 | Karen Vogtmann | Automorphisms of Groups, Outer Space, and Beyond |
| 2008 | Audrey A. Terras | Fun With Zeta Functions of Graphs |
| 2009 | Fan Chung Graham | New Directions in Graph Theory |
| 2010 | Carolyn S. Gordon | You Can't Hear the Shape of a Manifold |
| 2011 | Susan Montgomery | Orthogonal Representations: From Groups to Hopf Algebras |
| 2012 | Barbara Keyfitz | Conservation Laws - Not Exactly a la Noether |
| 2013 | Raman Parimala | A Hasse principle for quadratic forms over function fields |
| 2014 | Georgia Benkart | Walking on Graphs the Representation Theory Way |
| 2015 | Wen-Ching Winnie Li | Modular forms for congruence and noncongruence |
| 2016 | Karen E. Smith | The Power of Noether's Ring Theory in Understanding Singularities of Complex Algebraic Varieties |
| 2017 | Lisa Jeffrey | Cohomology of Symplectic Quotients |
| 2018 | Jill Pipher | Nonsmooth Boundary Value Problems |
| 2019 | Bryna Kra | Dynamics of systems with low complexity |
| 2020 | Birgit Speh | Branching Laws for Representations of Non Compact Orthogonal Groups |
| 2021 | Lecture cancelled in 2021 (see above) | |
| 2022 | Marianna Csörnyei | The Kakeya needle problem for rectifiable sets |
| 2023 | Laura DeMarco | Rigidity and uniformity in algebraic dynamics |
| 2024 | Anne Schilling | The Ubiquity of Crystal Bases |
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ICM Emmy Noether Lecturers
This table shows the women who have given the ICM Emmy Noether Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1994 | Olga Ladyzhenskaya |
| 1998 | Cathleen Synge Morawetz |
| 2002 | Hesheng Hu |
| 2006 | Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat |
| 2010 | Idun Reiten |
| 2014 | Georgia Benkart |
| 2018 | Sun-Yung Alice Chang |
| 2022 | Marie-France Vignéras |
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See also
- Falconer Lecture
- Kovalevsky Lecture
- List of mathematics awards
- List of things named after Emmy Noether
