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Anna Lawniczak

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Anna T. Lawniczak (born 1953)[1] is an applied mathematician known for her work on complex systems including lattice gas automata, a type of cellular automaton used to model fluid dynamics. Educated in Poland and the US, she has worked in the US and Canada, where she is a professor at the University of Guelph.[2] She is the former president of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society.[3]

Education and career

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After earning a master's degree in engineering (summa cum laude) from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland, Lawniczak went to Southern Illinois University in the US for doctoral study in mathematics.[4] She completed her Ph.D. in 1981, supervised by Philip J. Feinsilver.[5]

Before taking her current position at the University of Guelph in 1989,[2] Lawniczak was a professor at Louisiana State University in the US, and the University of Toronto in Canada.[4]

She was president of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society / Société Canadienne de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (CAIMS/SCMAI) from 1997 to 2001. As president she guided a 1998 transition that included a new constitution, formal incorporation, a new annual conference, and a change from its former name, the Canadian Applied Mathematics Society / Société Canadienne de Mathématiques Appliquées.[3]

Recognition

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The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society gave Lawniczak their Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award in 2003.[3] In the same year, the Fields Institute listed her as a Fellow in recognition of her "outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute and its activities".[6]

The Engineering Institute of Canada named her as an EIC Fellow in 2018, after a nomination from IEEE Canada, naming her as "an international authority in the discrete modeling & simulation methods like Individually Based Simulation Models, Agent Based Simulations, Cellular Automata and Lattice Gas Cellular Automata, a field of which she is one of the co-developers".[7]

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, accessed 2024-04-26
  2. ^ a b "Anna Lawniczak", People, University of Guelph, retrieved 2024-04-26
  3. ^ a b c "Anna Lawniczak", Members, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, archived from the original on 2024-01-16, retrieved 2024-04-26
  4. ^ a b Lawniczak, Anna, Bio, retrieved 2024-04-26
  5. ^ Anna Lawniczak at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Fields Institute Fellows, Fields Institute, 30 September 2014, archived from the original on 2024-04-15, retrieved 2024-04-26
  7. ^ "Anna Lawniczak" (PDF), 2018 Award Citation – EIC Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada, archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-02-01, retrieved 2024-04-26
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