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Deborah Frank Lockhart

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American mathematician
Deborah Frank Lockhart
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsNational Science Foundation
Thesis Dynamic buckling of imperfection-sensitive structures  (1974)

Deborah Frank Lockhart is a mathematician known for her work with the National Science Foundation.

Career

Lockhart graduated in 1965 from the Bronx High School of Science. She received her BS in mathematics from New York University, and went on to receive her Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the area of continuum mechanics.

Lockhart went on to work at SUNY Geneseo before moving to Michigan Technological University in 1976. She began working as a program director at the National Science Foundation in 1988, later becoming a deputy division director and acting division director before, in 2016, being named deputy assistant director of the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

Awards and honors

In 2012, Lockhart became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Also that year, she became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is also the 2021 recipient of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession.

Selected publications

  • Lockhart, Deborah F. Dynamic buckling of a damped imperfect column on a nonlinear foundation. Quart. Appl. Math. 36 (1978/79), no. 1, 49–55.

References

  1. "Notable Alumni-Bronx High School of Science Alumni Association". Retrieved Feb 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "Deborah Lockhart". LinkedIn. Retrieved Feb 10, 2015.
  3. "Report on the 1997 Association for Women in Mathematics Conference in Stanford (from AWM Nesletter)". Retrieved Feb 10, 2015.
  4. Crim, F. Fleming (March 8, 2016). "Appointment of Dr. Deborah Lockhart as Deputy Assistant Director, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Science Foundation" (PDF). National Science Foundation.
  5. "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". ams.org. Retrieved Feb 10, 2015.
  6. "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". AAAS Website. 30 November 2012. Retrieved Feb 10, 2015.
  7. "AN21 Prize Spotlight". SIAM News. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
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