Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize is a mathematics award from the American Mathematical Society that is awarded every two years for outstanding work by female mathematicians. The work should be from the last six years. It was donated in 1990 by Joan Birman in memory of her sister Ruth Lyttle Satter (1923–1989) and is endowed with 5000 dollars. Ruth Lyttle Satter was a botanist, but had studied physics and mathematics for family reasons before interrupting her career. Satter studied plant physiology, leaf motor skills, and biological rhythms and was a professor at the University of Connecticut. She died of leukemia.
Award winners
- 2019 Maryna Viazovska for her groundbreaking work in discrete geometry and her spectacular solution to the sphere packing problem in dimension eight.
- 2017 Laura DeMarco for her fundamental contributions to complex dynamics, potential theory and the emerging field of arithmetic dynamics.
- 2015 Hee Oh for fundamental contributions in the field of dynamics to homogeneous spaces, discrete subsets of Lie groups, and applications of number theory.
- 2013 Maryam Mirzakhani for fundamental contributions to the theory of modular spaces of Riemann surfaces .
- 2011 Amie Wilkinson for her ergodic theory of partially hyperbolic dynamic systems.
- 2009 Laure Saint-Raymond for fundamental work on the hydrodynamic limit of the Boltzmann equation in kinetic gas theory.
- 2007 Claire Voisin for deep-seated contributions to algebraic geometry, especially for her solution to two long open problems: the Kodaira problem ("On the homotopy types of compact Kähler and complex projective manifolds", Inventiones Mathematicae, Vol. 157, 2004, p. 329– 343) and the conjecture by Green ("Green's canonical syzygy conjecture for generic curves of odd genus," Compositio Mathematica, Vol. 141, 2005, pp. 1163-1190; "Green's generic syzygy conjecture for curves of even genus lying on a K3 surface, "Journal of the European Mathematical Society, Vol. 4, 2002, pp. 363-404).
- 2005 Svetlana Jitomirskaya for her pioneering work on non-perturbative quasiperiodic localization, especially in her work "Metal-insulator transition for the almost Mathieu operator," (Annals of Mathematics, vol. 150, 1999, pp. 1159-1175) and "Absolutely continuous spectrum for 1D quasiperiodic operators. " (with Jean Bourgain , Invent. Math., Vol. 148, 2002, No. 3, pp. 453-463).
- 2003 Abigail Thompson for her outstanding work in three-dimensional topology.
- 2001 Karen E. Smith for her outstanding work on commutative algebra, Sijue Wu for her work on a long open problem in the theory of water waves.
- 1999 Bernadette Perrin-Riou for number theoretical research on p-adic L-functions and Iwasawa theory .
- 1997 Ingrid Daubechies for her work on wavelets and their applications.
- 1995 Sun-Yung Alice Chang for deep-seated contributions to the study of partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds and especially for her work on extreme problems in spectral geometry and the compactness of isospectral metrics within a fixed conformal class of metrics on compact 3-manifolds.
- 1993 Lai-Sang Young for her leading role in the study of statistical or ergodic properties of dynamic systems.
- 1991 Dusa McDuff for outstanding work on symplectic geometry.