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Deborah Frank Lockhart
American mathematician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Deborah Frank Lockhart is a mathematician known for her work with the National Science Foundation.
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Career
Lockhart graduated in 1965 from the Bronx High School of Science.[1] She received her BS in mathematics from New York University,[2] and went on to receive her Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the area of continuum mechanics.[3]
Lockhart went on to work at SUNY Geneseo before moving to Michigan Technological University in 1976.[2] 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.[4]
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Awards and honors
In 2012, Lockhart became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5] Also that year, she became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[6] She is also the 2021 recipient of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession.[7]
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
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