Suzanne Lenhart

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| birth_name = Suzanne Marie Lenhart

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|11|19}}

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| nationality = American

| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = University of Tennessee

| alma_mater = Bellarmine College
University of Kentucky

| thesis_title = Partial Differential Equations from Dynamic Programming Equations

| thesis_url = https://search.worldcat.org/title/8485929

| thesis_year = 1981

| doctoral_advisor = Lawrence Craig Evans

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Suzanne Marie Lenhart (born November 19, 1954)Birth date from [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007002163.html Library of Congress catalog entry], retrieved 2018-11-29. 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,[http://www.math.utk.edu/awards/#chancellor 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. 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.[http://www.nimbios.org/personnel/dir_lenhart Suzanne Lenhart: Associate NIMBioS Director for Education and Outreach], retrieved 2015-06-07.

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.{{citation|first=Suzanne|last=Lenhart|contribution=Outreach and variety|pages=361–364|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7LQHEe157GQC&pg=PA361|title=Complexities: Women in Mathematics|title-link= Complexities: Women in Mathematics |editor1-first=Bettye Anne|editor1-last=Case|editor1-link=Bettye Anne Case|editor2-first=Anne M.|editor2-last=Leggett|editor2-link=Anne M. Leggett|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780691114620}}. She completed her doctorate in 1981 under the supervision of Lawrence C. Evans,{{mathgenealogy|id=6937}} 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,[https://sites.google.com/site/awmmath/programs/falconer-lectures/past-recipients Past Falconer Lecturers], Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2015-06-07. president of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2001–2003,[https://sites.google.com/site/awmmath/awm/history AWM History: AWM Officers], Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2015-06-07. and AWM/SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer in 2010 "in recognition of her significant research in partial differential equations, ordinary differential equations, and optimal control".[http://www.maa.org/news/math-news/suzanne-lenhart-will-deliver-the-2010-awm-siam-sonia-kovalevsky-lecture Suzanne Lenhart Will Deliver the 2010 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture], Mathematical Association of America, May 28, 2010, retrieved 2015-06-07. 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.[http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2011 SIAM Fellows Class of 2011] In 2013, she was selected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in the inaugural class.{{cite web|title=Fellows Program|url=http://www.ams.org/cgi-bin/fellows/fellows.cgi#ls/|publisher=American Mathematical Society|accessdate=17 May 2020}} In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.{{cite web|title=2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows Program|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2018-awm-fellows|website=awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|accessdate=9 January 2021}} In 2022, Lenhart was invited as an AAAS-AMS address selection committee member.{{Cite web |title=AMS Committees |url=http://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/aaasamsia-past.html |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=American Mathematical Society |language=en}}

Selected publications

;Textbooks

{{citation

| last1 = Lenhart | first1 = Suzanne

| last2 = Workman | first2 = John T.

| isbn = 978-1-58488-640-2

| publisher = Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL

| series = Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology Series

| title = Optimal Control Applied to Biological Models

| year = 2007}}.{{citation|title=Review of Optimal Control Applied to Biological Models|year=2008|first=Stefan|last=Mirică|journal=Mathematical Reviews|mr=2316829}}.

{{citation|title=Mathematics for the Life Sciences|first1=Erin N.|last1=Bodine|first2=Suzanne|last2=Lenhart|first3=Louis J.|last3=Gross|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2014|isbn=9781400852772}}{{citation|title=Review of Mathematics for the Life Sciences|first=Tom|last=Schulte|date=April 4, 2015|work=MAA Reviews|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|url=http://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/mathematics-for-the-life-sciences-0}}.

;Research papers