Nominator: Any person can be a nominator! People of any gender can be a nominator, self nominations are allowed, and you do not need to be an AWM member to nominate someone for this award. If this is a self-nomination, then you must have one additional letter of support. Nomination Packet: A nomination packet should include:. Award Criteria: This lecture will be awarded annually to anyone in the scientific or engineering community whose work highlights the achievements of women in applied or computational mathematics.
Nominee Requirements. The award is open to all regardless of nationality and citizenship. The couple remained in Petersburg for the first few months of their marriage and then traveled to Heidelburg where Sofia gained a small fame.
People were enthralled by the quiet Russian girl with an outstanding academic reputation Perl In , Sofia decided that she wanted to pursue studies under Karl Weierstrass at the University of Berlin. Weierstrass was considered one of the most renowned mathematicians of his time, and at first he did not take Sofia seriously.
Only after evaluating a problem set he had given her did he realize the genius at his hands. He immediately set to work privately tutoring her because the university still would not permit women to attend.
Sofia studied under Weierstrass for four years. She is quoted as having said, "These studies had the deepest possible influence on my entire career in mathematics. They determined finally and irrevocably the direction I was to follow in my later scientific work: all my work has been done precisely in the spirit of Weierstrass" Rappaport At the end of her four years she had produced three papers in the hopes of being awarded a degree.
The first of these, "On the Theory of Partial Differential Equations," was even published in Crelle's journal, a tremendous honor for an unknown mathematician Rappaport In July of , Sofia Kovalevskaya was granted a Ph.
Yet even with such a prestigious degree and the help of Weierstrass, who had grown quite fond of his pupil, she was not able to find employment. She and Vladimir decided to return to her family in Palobino. Shortly after her return home, her father died unexpectedly. It was during this period of sorrow that Sofia and Vladimir fell in love. Their marriage produced one daughter Perl While at home, Sofia neglected her work in mathematics but instead developed her literary skills.
She tried her hand at fiction, theater reviews, and science articles for a newspaper Rappaport In , Sofia returned to her work in mathematics with a new fervor. She presented a paper on Abelian integrals at a scientific conference and was very well received. Once again she was faced with the dilemma of finding employment doing what she loved most--mathematics. She decided to return to Berlin, also home to Weierstrass.
She was not there long before she learned of Vladimir's death. He had committed suicide when all of his business ventures had collapsed. Sofia's grief threw her into her work more passionately than ever Perl Then, in , Sofia's luck took a turn for the better. She received an invitation from an acquaintance and former student of Weierstrass, Gosta Mittag-Leffler, to lecture at the University of Stockholm.
In the beginning it was only a temporary position, but at the end of a five year period, Sofia had more than proven her value to the university. She was the first major Russian female mathematician, the first female member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the first modern European woman to attain full professorship. Despite social conventions of the time restricting the involvement of women in such fields, Sonia Kovalevsky made major contributions to academia.
In honor of her, the Mathematics Department at the University of Iowa organizes SK day yearly with the goal to inspire young women interested in math and show them they have limitless possibilities.
The University of Iowa Mathematics Department organizes an annual Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics day for high-school aged women, their parents or guardians, and their teachers.
The SK day will be the 15 th annual such event and we are excited to hold this very special event once again! The goal of this day is to encourage young women to pursue careers in math and science. We do this by providing female role models and educating them about the limitless possibilities of mathematics and the limitless possibilities they have when entering fields involving math.
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