| Lia Bronsard | |
|---|---|
 Bronsard at Oberwolfach in 2022 | |
| Born | (1963-03-14) March 14, 1963 (age 61) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Title | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert V. Kohn |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | McMaster University |
Lia Bronsard (b. 14 March 1963) is a Canadian mathematician and the former president of the Canadian Mathematical Society. She is a professor of mathematics at McMaster University.
Contributions
In her research, she has used geometric flows to model the interface dynamics of reaction–diffusion systems. Other topics in her research include pattern formation, grain boundaries, and vortices in superfluids.
Education and career
Bronsard is originally from Québec. She did her undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal, graduating in 1983, and earned her PhD in 1988 from New York University under the supervision of Robert V. Kohn.
After short-term positions at Brown University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Carnegie Mellon University, she moved to McMaster in 1992. She was president of the Canadian Mathematical Society for 2014–2016.
Recognition
Bronsard was the 2010 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize. In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed her in their inaugural class of fellows.
Selected publications
- Bronsard, Lia; Kohn, Robert V. (1990), "On the slowness of phase boundary motion in one space dimension", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 43 (8): 983–997, Bibcode:1990STIN...9121480B, doi:10.1002/cpa.3160430804, MR 1075075
- Bronsard, Lia; Kohn, Robert V. (1991), "Motion by mean curvature as the singular limit of Ginzburg–Landau dynamics", Journal of Differential Equations, 90 (2): 211–237, Bibcode:1991JDE....90..211B, doi:10.1016/0022-0396(91)90147-2, MR 1101239
- Bronsard, Lia; Reitich, Fernando (1993), "On three-phase boundary motion and the singular limit of a vector-valued Ginzburg–Landau equation", Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 124 (4): 355–379, Bibcode:1993ArRMA.124..355B, doi:10.1007/BF00375607, MR 1240580, S2CID 123291032
References
- Curriculum vitae for Lia Bronsard (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-10-26, retrieved 2017-10-26
- ^ Baulcomb, Andrew (December 12, 2013), "'I'm very pleased to have been elected, and especially to have come from McMaster'", Daily News, McMaster University, retrieved 2017-08-13
- ^ "Bronsard, Lia", Faculty profile, McMaster University Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, archived from the original on 2019-04-21, retrieved 2017-08-13
- ^ Three Honoured for Outstanding Research Achievements, Canadian Mathematical Society, April 3, 2009, retrieved 2017-08-13
- Lia Bronsard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- CMS Presidents 1945–2016 (PDF), Canadian Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-08-13
- Canadian Mathematical Society Inaugural Class of Fellows, Canadian Mathematical Society, December 7, 2018
External links
- Home page
- Lia Bronsard publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Canadian mathematicians
- Canadian women academics
- Canadian women mathematicians
- Université de Montréal alumni
- New York University alumni
- Academic staff of McMaster University
- Fellows of the Canadian Mathematical Society
- Presidents of the Canadian Mathematical Society
- Academics from Quebec