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{{Short description|U.S. lecture series in science and math}}
{{Primary sources|date=January 2023}}
The '''Etta Z. Falconer Lecture''' is an award and lecture series which honors "women who have made distinguished contributions to the mathematical sciences or mathematics education". It is sponsored by the [[Association for Women in Mathematics]] and the [[Mathematical Association of America]]. The lectures began in 1996 and were named after the mathematician [[Etta Zuber Falconer|Etta Z. Falconer]] in 2004 "in memory of Falconer's profound vision and accomplishments in enhancing the movement of minorities and women into scientific careers". The recipient presents the lecture at [[MathFest]] each summer.<ref>{{cite web |title=Falconer Lectures |url=https://awm-math.org/awards/falconer-lectures/ |publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics |accessdate=23 December 2018}}</ref>

==Recipients==

The Falconer Lecturers have been:<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Falconer Lecturers |url=https://awm-math.org/awards/falconer-lectures/ |accessdate=10 April 2023 |publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics}}</ref>

* 1996 [[Karen E. Smith]], [[MIT]], "Calculus mod p"
* 1997 [[Suzanne M. Lenhart]], [[University of Tennessee]], "Applications of Optimal Control to Various Population Models"
* 1998 [[Margaret H. Wright]], [[Bell Labs]], "The Interior-Point Revolution in Constrained Optimization"
* 1999 [[Chuu-Lian Terng]], [[Northeastern University]], "Geometry and Visualization of Surfaces"
* 2000 [[Audrey Terras]], [[University of California at San Diego]], "Finite Quantum Chaos"
* 2001 [[Pat Shure]], [[University of Michigan]], "The Scholarship of Learning and Teaching: A Look Back and a Look Ahead"
* 2002 [[Annie Selden]], [[Tennessee Technological University]], "Two Research Traditions Separated by a Common Subject: Mathematics and Mathematics Education"
* 2003 [[Katherine Puckett Layton]], [[Beverly Hills High School]], "What I Learned in Forty Years in Beverly Hills 90212"
* 2004 [[Bozenna Pasik-Duncan]], [[University of Kansas]] "Mathematics Education of Tomorrow"
* 2005 [[Fern Hunt]], [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]], "Techniques for Visualizing Frequency Patterns in DNA"
* 2006 [[Trachette Jackson]], [[University of Michigan]], "Cancer Modeling: From the Classical to the Contemporary"
* 2007 [[Katherine St. John]], [[City University of New York]], "Comparing Evolutionary Trees"
* 2008 [[Rebecca Goldin]], [[George Mason University]], "The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Media"
* 2009 [[Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu]], "The Sum of Squares of Wavelengths of a Closed Surface"
* 2010 [[Ami Radunskaya]], [[Pomona College]], "Mathematical Challenges in the Treatment of Cancer"
* 2011 [[Dawn Lott]], [[Delaware State University]], "Mathematical Interventions for Aneurysm Treatment"
* 2012 [[Karen D. King]], [[ National Council of Teachers of Mathematics]], "Because I Love Mathematics: The Role of Disciplinary Grounding in Mathematics Education"
* 2013 [[Patricia Clark Kenschaft]], [[Montclair State University]],"Improving Equity and Education: Why and How"
* 2014 [[Marie A. Vitulli]], [[University of Oregon]], "From Algebraic to Weak Subintegral Extensions in Algebra and Geometry" <ref>{{cite web|url=https://csws.uoregon.edu/share/news/may-20-2014/marie-vitulli-named-2014-awm-maa-falconer-lecturer|title=Marie A. Vitulli named 2014 AWM-MAA Falconer Lecturer|publisher=Center for the Study of Women in Society|access-date=10 April 2023}}</ref>
*2015 [[Erica Walker|Erica N. Walker]], [[Teachers College]], [[Columbia University]], "'A Multiplicity All at Once': Mathematics for Everyone, Everywhere"
*2016 [[Izabella Laba]], [[University of British Columbia]], "Harmonic Analysis and Additive Combinatorics on Fractals"
*2017 [[Talithia Williams]], [[Harvey Mudd College]], "Not So Hidden Figures: Unveiling Mathematical Talent"
*2018 [[Pamela Gorkin]], [[Bucknell University]], "Finding Ellipses"
*2019 [[Tara Holm]], [[Cornell University]], "Dance of the Astonished Topologist... or How I Left Squares and Hexes for Math"
*2020 MathFest and Falconer Lecture canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
*2021 [[Bonita V. Saunders]], [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]], “Complex Functions, Mesh Generation, and Hidden Figures in the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions”
*2022 [[Suzanne Weekes]], Executive Director of the [[Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics]] (SIAM), "Continuity at Interfaces" 
*2023 [[Tatiana Toro]], [[University of Washington]] and Director of [[Mathematical Sciences Research Institute|SLMath]],  "Geometry of Measures"
*2024 [[Deanna Needell]], [[University of California, Los Angeles]], "Towards Fairer-ness in Machine Learning”
*2025 [[Olivia (Prosper) Feldman|Olivia Feldman]], [[University of Tennessee]], "Mathematical Insights at Different Biological Scales."

==See also==
* [[Kovalevsky Lecture]]
* [[Noether Lecture]]
* [[List of mathematics awards]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* https://web.archive.org/web/20190503221958/http://www.cirs.info/prix,langue.eng.html
* https://awm-math.org/awards/falconer-lectures/
* http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/prizes.htm#falconer

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