The 2009 European Mathematical Society lecturer

The 2009 European Mathematical Society lecturer will be Professor Ingrid Daubechies of Princeton University, and she will give some of her EMS lectures at the 14th general meeting of EWM, which is to be held in August 2009, at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Professor Daubechies will also , as EMS lecturer of the year 2009, give presentations at NuHAG (Numerical Harmonic Analysis Group), the University of Vienna.

Ingrid Daubechies has had a significant impact in numerous areas of applied mathematics and signal and image processing, with research accomplishments bridging across many scientific and engineering disciplines, resulting in over 100 publications and an influential and widely-read book. Her service record is also impressive, most notably in science and engineering publications as well as professional societies. She has directed programs with high impact on young scientists in a variety of fields. She is an inspiration to the entire mathematics community, especially to the women’s mathematics community.

Ingrid Daubechies received her BS and PhD in Physics at the Free University in Brussels, where she also taught for 12 years. She then moved to AT&T Bell Labs where she served as a leading authority on wavelet theory. Since 1993, she has been at the Mathematics Department and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. She became the first woman full professor in mathematics at Princeton University. She now holds the William R. Kenan Jr. Professorship.

Professor Daubechies has also received many awards and honors, including the Louis Empain Prize for Physics, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, AMS Steele Prize for Exposition and Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences. She was also awarded the International Society for Optical Engineering Recognition of Outstanding Achievement and the IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee award for Technological Innovation. In 2000, she became the first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Medal in Mathematics. She gave the Gibbs Lecture in 2005 and the Noether Lecture in 2006.

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