Deborah Frank Lockhart
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsNational Science Foundation
ThesisDynamic 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.[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 and then Deputy Division Director at the National Science Foundation.

Awards and honors

In 2012, Lockhart became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4] Also that year, she became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[5] She is also the 2021 recipient of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession.[6]

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. 1 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. ↑ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". ams.org. Retrieved Feb 10, 2015.
  5. ↑ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". AAAS Website. 30 November 2012. Retrieved Feb 10, 2015.
  6. ↑ "AN21 Prize Spotlight". SIAM News. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
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