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Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

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Bozenna Pasik-Duncan 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 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][3]

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][4] She was the 2004 AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer,[5] and the 2004 winner of the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[4] She was named a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control in 2014.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Short Biography: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, archived from the original on 2016-08-16, retrieved 2016-07-06.
  2. ^ a b Carr, Margie (August 14, 2011), "Watershed moments shaped Professor Bozenna Pasik-Duncan's love for teaching, mathematics", Lawrence Journal-World.
  3. ^ Bozenna Pasik-Duncan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ a b Bozenna Pasik-Duncan: Fourteenth Annual Louise Hay Award, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2016-07-06.
  5. ^ AWM-MAA Falconer Lectures, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2016-07-06.
  6. ^ IFAC Fellows
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