Joyce McLaughlin
{{Short description|American mathematician (1939–2017)}}
Joyce Rogers McLaughlin (8 October 1939 – 23 October 2017)[https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/obituary-joyce-r-mclaughlin-6 Obituary: Joyce R. McLaughlin] was an American mathematician, the Ford Foundation Professor of Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests were primarily in applied mathematics, and in particular in inverse problems.
Academic career
McLaughlin did her undergraduate studies at Kansas State University. After earning a master's degree from the University of Maryland, she moved to the University of California, Riverside for her doctoral studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1968 under the supervision of Joaquin Basilio Diaz.[http://www.siam.org/prizes/2004_luncheon.php 2004 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer: Joyce R. McLaughlin], Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, retrieved 2013-02-07.{{mathgenealogy|name=Joyce Rogers McLaughlin|id=19536}} She joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1978.
She was chair of the board of trustees of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics from 1996 to 1998.
Awards and honors
McLaughlin was an invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994.
She was chosen by the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics as the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer in 2004.
She became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009[http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2009 SIAM Fellows class of 2009], retrieved 2013-02-07. and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013 in the inaugural class.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-02-06.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121012013619/http://eaton.math.rpi.edu/faculty/J.McLaughlin/mclauj.html Home page]
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Category:20th-century American mathematicians
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Category:Kansas State University alumni
Category:University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Category:University of California, Riverside alumni
Category:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Category:Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics