Anna Lawniczak
{{Short description|Applied mathematician}}
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Anna T. Lawniczak (born 1953){{r|born}} is an applied mathematician known for her work on complex systems including lattice gas automata, a type of cellular automaton used to model fluid dynamics. Educated in Poland and the US, she has worked in the US and Canada, where she is a professor at the University of Guelph.{{r|guelph}} She is the former president of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society.{{r|caims}}
Education and career
After earning a master's degree in engineering (summa cum laude) from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland, Lawniczak went to Southern Illinois University in the US for doctoral study in mathematics.{{r|bio}} She completed her Ph.D. in 1981, supervised by Philip J. Feinsilver.{{r|mg}}
Before taking her current position at the University of Guelph in 1989,{{r|guelph}} Lawniczak was a professor at Louisiana State University in the US, and the University of Toronto in Canada.{{r|bio}}
She was president of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society / Société Canadienne de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (CAIMS/SCMAI) from 1997 to 2001. As president she guided a 1998 transition that included a new constitution, formal incorporation, a new annual conference, and a change from its former name, the Canadian Applied Mathematics Society / Société Canadienne de Mathématiques Appliquées.{{r|caims}}
Recognition
The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society gave Lawniczak their Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award in 2003.{{r|caims}} In the same year, the Fields Institute listed her as a Fellow in recognition of her "outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute and its activities".{{r|fields}}
The Engineering Institute of Canada named her as an EIC Fellow in 2018, after a nomination from IEEE Canada, naming her as "an international authority in the discrete modeling & simulation methods like Individually Based Simulation Models, Agent Based Simulations, Cellular Automata and Lattice Gas Cellular Automata, a field of which she is one of the co-developers".{{r|eic}}
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External links
- [https://sites.google.com/site/annalawniczak/ Home page]
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Category:Polish mathematicians
Category:Polish women mathematicians
Category:Canadian mathematicians
Category:Canadian women mathematicians
Category:Applied mathematicians
Category:Wrocław University of Technology alumni
Category:Southern Illinois University alumni
Category:Louisiana State University faculty