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Suzanne Marie Lenhart (born November 19, 1954) is an American mathematician who works in partial differential equations, optimal control and mathematical biology. She is a Chancellor's Professor of mathematics at the University of Tennessee, an associate director for education and outreach at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, and a part-time researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Education and career

Lenhart grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and was educated in the Catholic school system there. She did her undergraduate studies at Bellarmine College in Louisville, where Ralph Grimaldi encouraged her to prepare for graduate studies in mathematics and gave her additional tutoring in number theory. She entered graduate school at the University of Kentucky not knowing what she would specialize in, but in her second year chose partial differential equations. She completed her doctorate in 1981 under the supervision of Lawrence C. Evans, and immediately took a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Tennessee. She added a second part-time position at Oak Ridge in 1987.

Awards and honors

Lenhart was AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer in 1997, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2001–2003, and AWM/SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer in 2010 "in recognition of her significant research in partial differential equations, ordinary differential equations, and optimal control". She was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010, and became a Chancellor's Professor and SIAM Fellow in 2011. In 2013, she was selected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in the inaugural class. In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class. In 2022, Lenhart was invited as an AAAS-AMS address selection committee member.

Selected publications

Textbooks

• Lenhart, Suzanne; Workman, John T. (2007), Optimal Control Applied to Biological Models, Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology Series, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, ISBN 978-1-58488-640-2.
• Bodine, Erin N.; Lenhart, Suzanne; Gross, Louis J. (2014), Mathematics for the Life Sciences, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9781400852772

Research papers

• Lenhart, Suzanne M.; Travis, Curtis C. (1986), "Global stability of a biological model with time delay", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 96 (1): 75–78, doi:10.2307/2045656, JSTOR 2045656, MR 0813814.
• Kirschner, Denise; Lenhart, Suzanne; Serbin, Steve (1997), "Optimal control of the chemotherapy of HIV", Journal of Mathematical Biology, 35 (7): 775–792, doi:10.1007/s002850050076, MR 1479338, PMID 9269736, S2CID 6128548.
• Fister, K. Renee; Lenhart, Suzanne; McNally, Joseph Scott (1998), "Optimizing chemotherapy in an HIV model", Electronic Journal of Differential Equations: No. 32, 12, MR 1657195.
• Jung, E.; Lenhart, S.; Feng, Z. (2002), "Optimal control of treatments in a two-strain tuberculosis model", Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2 (4): 473–482, doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2002.2.473, MR 1921233.

References

1. Birth date from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-11-29.
2. ^ 2008-present Awards & Announcements, Department of Mathematics: Suzanne Lenhart Appointed Chancellor's Professor, Univ. of Tennessee Mathematics, retrieved 2015-06-07. See also "Suzanne Lenhart Elected AAAS Fellow", later on same page.
3. Suzanne Lenhart: Associate NIMBioS Director for Education and Outreach, retrieved 2015-06-07.
4. ^ Lenhart, Suzanne (2005), "Outreach and variety", in Case, Bettye Anne; Leggett, Anne M. (eds.), Complexities: Women in Mathematics, Princeton University Press, pp. 361–364, ISBN 9780691114620.
5. Suzanne Lenhart at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
6. Past Falconer Lecturers, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2015-06-07.
7. AWM History: AWM Officers, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2015-06-07.
8. Suzanne Lenhart Will Deliver the 2010 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture, Mathematical Association of America, May 28, 2010, retrieved 2015-06-07.
9. SIAM Fellows Class of 2011
10. "Fellows Program". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
11. "2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows Program". awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
12. "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
13. Mirică, Stefan (2008), "Review of Optimal Control Applied to Biological Models", Mathematical Reviews, MR 2316829.
14. Schulte, Tom (April 4, 2015), "Review of Mathematics for the Life Sciences", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.

External links

• Home page
• Suzanne Lenhart at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Suzanne Lenhart publications indexed by Google Scholar

• 1954 births
• Living people
• 20th-century American mathematicians
• 21st-century American mathematicians
• Bellarmine University alumni
• University of Kentucky alumni
• University of Tennessee faculty
• Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
• Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics
• Mathematicians from Kentucky
• 20th-century American women mathematicians
• 21st-century American women mathematicians