Biography:Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan | |
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| Born | Bożenna Janina Pasik 1947 (age 76–77) |
| Nationality | Polish-American |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw, Main School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw |
| Spouse(s) | Tyrone Duncan |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Kansas |
| Thesis | (1978) |
Bozenna Janina Pasik-Duncan (born 1947) is a Polish-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas.
Research
Pasik-Duncan's research concerns stochastic control and its applications in communications, economics, and health science. She is also interested in mathematics education, particularly for women in STEM fields.[1][2]
Education and career
Pasik-Duncan attended high school in Radom.[3] She earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Warsaw in 1970.[1] She completed a Ph.D. at the Warsaw School of Economics in 1978, and earned a habilitation there in 1986.[1][4]
She moved to the University of Kansas mathematics department in 1984,[1] joining there her husband Tyrone Duncan (also a University of Kansas mathematician).[2]
Recognition
She was a recipient of the IEEE's Third Millennium Medal in 2000, and became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001.[1][5] She was the 2004 AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer,[6] and the 2004 winner of the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[5] She was named a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control in 2014.[7] Pasik-Duncan was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the Class of 2021 "for her decades of contributions: as a founder and sustainer of the Women in Control Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society; as the chair of IFAC’s Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion; and via other programs and activities to support and encourage women and girls in mathematics and engineering".[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Short Biography: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/bio.html, retrieved 2016-07-06.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Carr, Margie (August 14, 2011), "Watershed moments shaped Professor Bozenna Pasik-Duncan's love for teaching, mathematics", Lawrence Journal-World, http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/aug/14/watershed-moments-helped-shape-professor-bozenna-p/.
- ↑ "I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Radomiu - Historia szkoły" (in pl). 2018-07-28. https://kopernik.radom.pl/o-szkole/historia-szko%C5%82y.html.
- ↑ Bozenna Pasik-Duncan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bozenna Pasik-Duncan: Fourteenth Annual Louise Hay Award, Association for Women in Mathematics, https://sites.google.com/site/awmmath/programs/hay-award/past-recipients/hay-award-past-recipients/bozennapasik-duncan, retrieved 2016-07-06.
- ↑ AWM-MAA Falconer Lectures, Mathematical Association of America, http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/lecture-awards/awm-maa-falconer-lectures, retrieved 2016-07-06.
- ↑ "IFAC Fellows — IFAC · International Federation of Automatic Control" (in en). https://www.ifac-control.org/awards/ifac-fellows.
- ↑ "The AWM Fellows Program: 2021 Class of AWM Fellows". Association for Women in Mathematics. https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2021-awm-fellows/.
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