1. Cathleen Morawetz Cathleen Morawetz. May 5, 1923 . Written by Tyler Knowles, Class of 2000 (AgnesScott College). Cathleen Morawetz was born on May 5, 1923, in Toronto, Canada. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/morawetz.htm

Cathleen Morawetz May 5, 1923 - Written by Tyler Knowles, Class of 2000 (Agnes Scott College) Cathleen Morawetz was born on May 5, 1923, in Toronto, Canada. Her Irish parents were John Synge, a mathematician, and Eleanor Mabel Synge. Cathleen obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics in 1943 at the University of Toronto, where she studied with Cecilia Krieger . The following year she worked as a technical assistant for inspection of the Board of the United Kingdom and Canada. She received her master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946. Cathleen then moved to New York where she edited a book called Supersonic Flow and Shock Waves by Richard Courant and Kurt Friedrichs of New York University. On the completion of the book, she began writing her Ph.D. thesis on imploding shock waves. In 1950, while researching her thesis, Cathleen became a naturalized U.S. citizen. She earned her Ph.D. at New York University in 1951. Cathleen then became a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year but returned to NYU in 1952. Since then she has spent her entire career there. She was a research associate for five years, then became an assistant professor in 1957, associate professor in 1960, and professor in 1965. She was appointed associate director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1978 and deputy director in 1981. She has served as director of the National Cash Register Corporation since 1978 and as chair of the mathematics department of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 1981- 1984. Cathleen became the first woman in the United States to head a mathematical institute when she was named director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1984. She is now Professor Emeritus at New York University-Courant Institute.

2. Profiles Of Women In Mathematics: Cathleen Synge Morawetz Cathleen Synge Morawetz. Variations on ConservationLaws for the Wave Equation. Berlin, Germany, 1998. http://www.awm-math.org/noetherbrochure/Morawetz98.html

Cathleen Synge Morawetz Variations on Conservation Laws for the Wave Equation Berlin, Germany, 1998 Previous Index Next Cathleen Synge Morawetz: Morawetz's earliest published works were on the stability of steady viscous flows. In the fifties, she turned to the mathematics of transonic flow, and showed that specially designed shockless airfoils develop shocks if they are altered even by a small amount. The discovery opened the problem of developing a theory for transonic flow with shocks. Morawetz's father was the mathematician J. L. Synge, and her mother also studied mathematics for a time. Both her parents were supportive of her interest in mathematics and science, and it was a woman mathematician, Cecilia Krieger, who had been a family friend for many years who later encouraged Motawetz to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics. A mother of four, Morawetz has been able to balance her energies between her research and her family. She was honored by the National Organization for Women for successfully combining career and family; today her main nonmathematical interests are her six grandchildren - and even there she likes to do things which keep them interested in science and mathematics. Previous Index Next Association for Women in Mathematics Comments: awm-webmaster@awm-math.org

3. Cathleen S. Morawetz Cathleen S. Morawetz How Do Perturbations of the Wave Equation Work Denver, Colorado 1983 CATHLEEN SYNGE MORAWETZ was bom in Toronto of Irish parents. http://www.math.unl.edu/~awm/awm_folder/NoetherBrochure/Morawetz83.html

Cathleen S. Morawetz How Do Perturbations of the Wave Equation Work Denver, Colorado 1983 CATHLEEN SYNGE MORAWETZ was bom in Toronto of Irish parents. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1945 and went on to receive her master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Techinology. She earned her PhD at New York University, with a thesis on the stability of a spherical implosion. She is a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, where she served as director from 1984 to 1988. In 1981, she delivered the Gibbs Lecture of The American Mathematical Society, and in 1982 presented an Invited Address at a meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was named Outstanding Wornan Scientist for 1993 by the Association for Women in Science. In 1995, she became the second woman elected to the office of president of the American Mathernatical Society. Morawetz's earliest published works were on the stability of steady viscous flows. In an early paper, she showed that there are stable modes for many Orr-Somerfeld tw0-point boundary value problems coming from the perturbation of steady flows, but these modes slip off to infinity in the limit of zero viscosity. As a result, they are of little interest in analyzing viscosity. Turning to the mathematics of transonic flow, she showed that specially designed shockless airfoils develop shocks if they are altered even by a small amount. This discovery opened the problem of developing a theory for a flow with shocks.

4. Morawetz Cathleen Synge Morawetz. Born 5 May 1923 in Toronto, Canada. Clickthe Cathleen Morawetz was christened Cathleen Synge. Her father http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Morawetz.html

Cathleen Synge Morawetz Born: 5 May 1923 in Toronto, Canada Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Cathleen Morawetz was christened Cathleen Synge. Her father was John Lighton Synge , a mathematician who has a biography in this archive, while her mother, Eleanor Mabel Allen Synge, also had some training as a mathematician. Both Cathleen's parents were Irish but she was born in Toronto while her father held the position of assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto. However, when she was two years old the family returned to Ireland when her father was appointed to the chair of Natural Philosophy at Dublin University. When Cathleen was seven years old the family returned to Toronto and it was in Toronto that she attended school. Cathleen won a scholarship and entered the University of Toronto to study mathematics. Her parents both encouraged her interest in mathematics and science but her father jokingly said that if she became a mathematician:- ... we might fight like the Bernoulli brothers. Of course the years that Cathleen spent as an undergraduate at Toronto was the time of World War II and she undertook war work in 1943-44 as a technical assistant. Returning to the University of Toronto she was awarded her B.A. degree in Mathematics in 1945.

5. Morawetz Cathleen Morawetz. 1923 . There are few people, especially women, in the fieldof Mathematics who have accomplished as much as Cathleen Morawetz. http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/women/morawetz.html

Cathleen Morawetz It was during this period that Cathleen worked as a technical assistant doing war work in 1943-44. Upon returning to the University of Toronto after the war, Cathleen had the good fortune of working under the distinguished Cecilia Krieger and finished her Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics in 1945. Cathleen’s education and interest in mathematics did not stop with her Bachelors degree. Cathleen married a chemist, Herbert Morawetz, in 1945 and moved to Massachusetts and received her Master’s Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946. It was at this time that Cathleen was at odds with whether to continue her studies as a mathematician as the opportunities for women were very limited at that time. Luckily, her former teacher and friend, Cecilia Krieger, persuaded her to continue with her studies. Continuing at the Courant Institute, in 1974, Cathleen became associate director, a position she held until 1984 when she was appointed Director of the Courant Institute. Cathleen is the first woman to not only hold this position, but she was the first woman to hold any position of this stature in the United States. Additionally, Cathleen has received many honors throughout her distinguished career. They include: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member of the Advisory Committee for the Mathematical Sciences for the National Science Foundation Member of the Mathematical Advisory Committee to the Nation bureau of Standards

6. Cathleen S. Morawetz Cathleen S. Morawetz. Emeritus Professor, New York University, CourantInstitute. Born in 1923 in Toronto, Canada, moved to Ireland http://www.msri.org/people/governance/TrusteeInfo/200000252/show_trustee

Cathleen S. Morawetz Emeritus Professor, New York University, Courant Institute

7. Cypra Cecilia Krieger cathleen morawetz attributes her original interest in advanced mathematics and decisionto pursue a mathematical career to Krieger's encouragement and support. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/krieger.htm

Cecilia Krieger April 9, 1894- August 17, 1974 Cecilia Krieger was born in Jaslo, Poland (formerly Austria) in 1894. After studying mathematics and physics for one year at the University of Vienna, she entered the University of Toronto in 1920 (despite knowing very little English), receiving her B.A degree in 1924, her M.A. in 1925, and her Ph.D. in 1930 under the direction of W. J. Webber. Her graduate work included courses in Modular Elliptic Functions from Jacques Chapelon, Minimum Principles of Mechanics from J.L. Synge, Theory of Sets from Samuel Beatty, Theory of Numbers from J.C. Fields, and Theory of Functions from Webber. Her thesis was "On the summability of trigonometric series with localized propertieson Fourier constants and convergence factors of double Fourier series." This was published in two parts in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, in 1928 and 1930, respectively. Introduction to General Topology Cover page ] and General Topology (1952). In the 1934 translation Krieger also included an appendix that contained some of the ideas and results from Sierpinski's text on transfinite numbers that were used in the topology book.

8. Morawetz Biography of cathleen morawetz (19230BC) cathleen morawetz was christened cathleen Synge. Her father was John Lighton Synge, a mathematician who has a biography http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Morawetz.html

Cathleen Synge Morawetz Born: 5 May 1923 in Toronto, Canada Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Cathleen Morawetz was christened Cathleen Synge. Her father was John Lighton Synge , a mathematician who has a biography in this archive, while her mother, Eleanor Mabel Allen Synge, also had some training as a mathematician. Both Cathleen's parents were Irish but she was born in Toronto while her father held the position of assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto. However, when she was two years old the family returned to Ireland when her father was appointed to the chair of Natural Philosophy at Dublin University. When Cathleen was seven years old the family returned to Toronto and it was in Toronto that she attended school. Cathleen won a scholarship and entered the University of Toronto to study mathematics. Her parents both encouraged her interest in mathematics and science but her father jokingly said that if she became a mathematician:- ... we might fight like the Bernoulli brothers. Of course the years that Cathleen spent as an undergraduate at Toronto was the time of World War II and she undertook war work in 1943-44 as a technical assistant. Returning to the University of Toronto she was awarded her B.A. degree in Mathematics in 1945.

9. References For Morawetz References for cathleen morawetz. Articles GB Kolata, cathleen morawetz the mathematics of waves, Science 206 (4415) (1979), 206207. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Morawetz.html

References for Cathleen Morawetz Articles: G B Kolata, Cathleen Morawetz : the mathematics of waves, Science A J Majda, Nomination for Cathleen S Morawetz for President of the AMS, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. J D Patterson, Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923-), in L S Grinstein and P J Campbell (eds.), Women of Mathematics (Westport, Conn., 1987), 152-155. Main index Birthplace Maps Biographies Index History Topics ... Anniversaries for the year JOC/EFR May 2000 School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland The URL of this page is: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/References/Morawetz.html

10. Morawetz, Cathleen Dr. cathleen S. morawetz is a Professor of Mathematics at New York University. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. PRESIDENT NAMES DUDLEY R. HERSCHBACH AS CHAIRMAN, cathleen S. morawetz, SUSAN GRAHAM AND WILLIAM J. WILSON AS MEMBERS http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/GovernmentPolitics/WhiteHouse/Nominations

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 26, 1994 PRESIDENT NAMES DUDLEY R. HERSCHBACH AS CHAIRMAN, CATHLEEN S. MORAWETZ, SUSAN GRAHAM AND WILLIAM J. WILSON AS MEMBERS TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE The President today announced his appointment of Dudley R. Herschbach, of Massachusetts, as Chairman, Cathleen S. Morawetz, Susan Graham and William J. Wilson as Members of the President's Committee for the National Medal of Science. Dr. Cathleen S. Morawetz is a Professor of Mathematics at New York University. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Morawetz also serves as editor of a number of journals, and is the President-elect of the American Mathematics Society. Dr. Morawetz received her bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto, a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. from New York University. The National Medal of Science was created by statute in 1959 to recognize up to twenty individuals annually who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering. The Committee, comprised of twelve leading scientists and engineers from a number of fields, receives nominations, evaluates them, and makes its recommendations to the President.

11. Cathleen S. Morawetz Wins National Medal Of Science cathleen S. morawetz wins National Medal of Science. Mathematics to the Rescue (RetiringPresidential Address), cathleen Synge morawetz, Notices, Vol. 46, No. http://www.awm-math.org/biographies/morawetz/medal.html

Cathleen S. Morawetz wins National Medal of Science Cathleen S. Morawetz The White House Press Office release says, It goes on to describe the history and selection process for the National Medal of Science. The National Science Foundation (NSF) administers the Medal of Science program for the President. A distinguished independent, 12-member, presidential-appointed committee reviews the nominations and sends its list of recommendations to the President for final selection. The committee is comprised of outstanding scientists and engineers from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences. Serving as ex officio members are the president of the National Academy of Sciences and the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Policy. The description of Morawetz reads, Cathleen S. Morawetz , Professor Emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University in New York, New York, for pioneering advances in partial differential equations and wave propagation resulting in application to aerodynamics, acoustics, and optics. More about Morawetz and the National Medal of Science...

12. Cathleen Morawetz Receives National Medal Of ScienceNational Medal Of Science OT in the field of Mathematics who have accomplished as much as cathleen morawetz. Born in Canada on May 5, 1923 of Irish http://www.ams.org/notices/199903/comm-morawetz.pdf

13. Women In Math: Biographies 1945 ) MMcDuff, Dusa Merrill, Helen Abbot (1864-1949) Merrill, Winifred Edgerton(1862-1951) Metcalf, Ida (Ph.D. 1893) morawetz, cathleen (1923 - ) morawetz http://www.uoregon.edu/~wmnmath/People/Biographies/M.html

M Macintyre, Sheila Scott MacWilliams, F. Jessie MacWilliams, F. Jessie Maddison, Ada Isabel ... Metcalf, Ida (Ph.D. 1893) Morawetz, Cathleen Morawetz, Cathleen Morawetz, Cathleen Morawetz, Cathleen ... Moufang, Ruth

14. Women In Math: Biographies McDuff, Dusa (1945 ) Merrill, Helen Abbot (1864-1949) Merrill, Winifred Edgerton(1862-1951) Metcalf, Ida (Ph.D. 1893) morawetz, cathleen (1923- ) Moufang http://www.uoregon.edu/~vitulli/WomenInMath/People/Biographies/M.html

M Macintyre, Sheila Scott MacWilliams, F. Jessie Maddison, Ada Isabel Malone-Mayes, Vivienne ... Metcalf, Ida (Ph.D. 1893) Morawetz, Cathleen Moufang, Ruth

15. Www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/GovernmentPolitics/WhiteHouse/Nominations+Appoin For Immediate Release October 26, 1994 PRESIDENT NAMES DUDLEY R. HERSCHBACH AS CHAIRMAN,cathleen S. morawetz, SUSAN GRAHAM AND WILLIAM J. WILSON AS MEMBERS TO http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/GovernmentPolitics/WhiteHouse/Nominations

16. Government And Politics, Women's Studies Database - University Of Miller, Clara Minner, Ruth Ann Miscikowski, Cynthia Montano, Peggy Moon, MarilynMoore, Karen Nelson MooreSilver, Roslyn morawetz, cathleen Moy, Kirsten http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/GovernmentPolitics/WhiteHouse/Nominations

17. Cathleen Morawetz Professor cathleen morawetz President of the American Mathematical Society andProfessor Emeritus, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York http://www.math.uiuc.edu/MSS/1996-FALL/morawetz.html

Mathematics in Science and Society Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with the American Mathematical Society presenting two talks by Professor Cathleen Morawetz President of the American Mathematical Society and Professor Emeritus, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University See the poster! THE USEFULNESS OF ENERGY INTEGRALS Most people are familiar with the concept of constant energy from either planets in motion or a falling stone. This idea can be extended most usefully to equations which govern propagation. We shall show how those ideas have proved useful in the study of many problems such as how sound energy spreads in space or how airplanes develop shocks. Tuesday, September 17, 1996 at 4:30 pm, Room 314, Altgeld Hall Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 321, Altgeld Hall TRANSONIC FLOWS Colloquium: Time dependent gas dynamics is governed by hyperbolic equations, and shocks are inevitable. In two cases the equations simplify to a single equation, but of mixed type, i.e., it could be elliptic or hyperbolic. Properties and paradoxes of these flows will be described. Thursday, September 19, 1996 at 4:00 pm, Room 314, Altgeld Hall.

18. Abstract By Prof. Cathleen Morawetz Abstract by Prof. cathleen morawetz. The usefulness of energy integrals.Most people are familiar with the concept of constant energy http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Bulletin/Abstracts/September/sep13-96mss1.html

Abstract by Prof. Cathleen Morawetz The usefulness of energy integrals. Most people are familiar with the concept of constant energy from either planets in motion or a falling stone. This idea can be extended most usefully to equations which govern propagation. We shall show how those ideas have proved useful in the study of many problems such as how sound energy spreads in space or how airplanes develop shocks. Tuesday - September 17, 1996. 4:30 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY LECTURE

19. Table Of Contents 14. Jane Cronin Scanlon, 1985. 15. Mary Ellen Rudin, 1984. 16. cathleen S.morawetz, 1983. 17. Julia Robinson, 1982. 18. Olga TausskyTodd. 1981. 19. http://www.math.unl.edu/~awm/awm_folder/NoetherBrochure/TOC.html

Table Of Contents 1. Introduction. 2. Emmy Noether 3. Ol'ga Oleinik 1996 4. Judith D. Sally, 1995 ... 21. Acknowledgements

20. Citation For Cathleen Synge Morawetz During the decade before the 1960s cathleen morawetz produced extremely ambitiousand important results on transonic flow (flow near to the speed of sound http://www.lms.ac.uk/activities/prizes_com/citations01/morawetz.html

Citation for Cathleen Synge Morawetz In later work, Professor Morawetz turned her attention to scattering of waves by obstacles. She showed that disturbances would radiate to infinity, with energy near to the obstacle decaying like a negative power of time. In three dimensions she and others showed that the energy decays exponentially in time. In this work she has made use of ingeniously derived energy identities. These novel identities have become central in modern theories of hyperbolic systems, and in systems of mixed elliptic-hyperbolic type. Cathleen Morawetz was Director of the Courant Institute of the Mathematical Sciences, New York University, from 1984 to 1988. She was President of the American Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1997, and its Gibbs Lecturer in 1981. She is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences; in 1998 she was awarded the United States National Medal of Science, which was presented by the President of the United States, and was the first woman mathematician to be so honoured. Current prizewinners A summary of prizes regulations Back to top LMS Site Contents ... Home Editorial Control: J.T. Stuart

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