Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Born
Bożenna Janina Pasik

1947 (age 76–77)
NationalityPolish-American
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw, Main School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw
SpouseTyrone Duncan
Scientific career
Fieldsmathematics
InstitutionsUniversity 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. ^ 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. ^ "I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Radomiu - Historia szkoły". kopernik.radom.pl (in Polish). 2018-07-28. Archived from the original on 2018-07-28. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  4. ^ Bozenna Pasik-Duncan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ a b Bozenna Pasik-Duncan: Fourteenth Annual Louise Hay Award, Association for Women in Mathematics, archived from the original on 2016-06-16, retrieved 2016-07-06.
  6. ^ AWM-MAA Falconer Lectures, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2016-07-06.
  7. ^ "IFAC Fellows — IFAC · International Federation of Automatic Control". www.ifac-control.org. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  8. ^ "The AWM Fellows Program: 2021 Class of AWM Fellows". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 7 November 2020.