Professor Lesley Ward, FAWM, FAustMS

Lesley Ward is a Professor of Mathematics at UniSA. She is a Fellow of the US Association for Women in Mathematics, and a Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society, and was recently a Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge. She earned degrees from ANU and Yale University, then held positions at Rice University, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), and Harvey Mudd College.  Her research is in harmonic analysis and complex analysis. She also works in industrial applications of mathematics, as Director of the UniSA Mathematics Clinic. She was the Conference Director of the WIMSIG Conference 2017: Celebration of Women in Australian Mathematical Sciences. She has given plenary lectures at the annual conferences of the AustMS (2016) and NZMS (2018). Her book “Harmonic Analysis: From Fourier to Wavelets”, co-authored with M. Cristina Pereyra, was published by the American Mathematical Society in 2012. Lesley Ward was Chair of the Women in Mathematics Group (WIMSIG) (2015-2016) of the AustMS, and has worked on gender equity issues in STEM disciplines at five institutions over many years. She has won several teaching awards, notably the Mathematical Association of America’s Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching.

2020--present: Professor of Mathematics, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, UniSA.

2015--2019: Associate Professor of Mathematics, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, UniSA.

2006--2014: Senior Lecturer, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences (until 2012 the School of Mathematics and Statistics), UniSA.

2003--2006: Associate Professor, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, USA.

1997--2003: Assistant Professor, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, USA.

1995: Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, California, USA. Spring semester.

1994--1997: G.C. Evans Instructor of Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.

Selected awards and distinctions

2017: Conference Director, WIMSIG Conference 2017: Celebration of Women in Australian Mathematical Sciences, http://www.austms.org.au/WIMSIG-conference-2017 , University of South Australia, 24--26 Sep 2017.

2017: Co-organiser, The AMSI/AustMS 2017 Workshop in Harmonic Analysis and PDE, http://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-science-and-engineering/departments-and-centres/department-of-mathematics/news-and-events/2017-harmonic-analysis-and-pde-workshop , Macquarie University, 17--21 Jul 2017.

2015: Co-organiser, http://www.unisa.edu.au/ices Indigenous Content in Education Symposium (ICES '15), University of South Australia, 21 Sep 2015.

2014: Co-organiser, Special Session in Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, http://www.austms2014.ms.unimelb.edu.au/ 8th Australia--New Zealand Mathematics Convention, incorporating the 58th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society and the 2014 New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium, University of Melbourne, 8--12 Dec.

2014: Co-organiser, http://unisa.edu.au/mathssymposium Indigenous Content in STEM Symposium, Division of ITEE, UniSA, 26 Aug 2014.

2014: Co-organiser, http://rutherglen.science.mq.edu.au/ha2014/ The AMSI/AustMS 2014 Workshop in Harmonic Analysis and its Applications, Macquarie University, 21--25 Jul 2014.

2013: Senior Visiting Fellow, IPAM, UCLA, Program on Interactions between Analysis and Geometry. March.

2009: Visiting Researcher, Department of Mathematics, Brown University, USA. Oct--Dec.

2009: Visiting Researcher, Departamento de Matematica, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO), Brazil. Aug--Oct.

2008--2009: Chair of Local Organising Committee, Member of Programme Committee, and Treasurer, http://w3.unisa.edu.au/austms2009/ 53rd Annual Conference of the Australian Mathematical Society, held 28 Sep--1 Oct 2009, UniSA. Jan 2008--June 2009

2006: Mathematical Association of America (MAA) http://www.maa.org/Awards/alder.html Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member. One of three awarded in the US and Canada.

2006: My department (http://www.math.hmc.edu/ Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College) was awarded the inaugural http://www.ams.org/ams/press/mudd-05.html American Mathematical Society (AMS) Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department. All departments of mathematical sciences in the US and Canada that offer at least a bachelor's degree in mathematical sciences are eligible.

2004: http://nieis.anu.edu.au/programs/NIEIS_programs_weis.html WEIS Visiting Fellowship for a Senior Academic Woman in Engineering and Information Sciences, National Institute of Engineering and Information Sciences (NIEIS), Australian National University.

2004: Taught short course with Cristina Pereyra on Harmonic Analysis: From Fourier to Haar, http://www.math.ias.edu/womensprogram/ IAS/Princeton Program for Women in Mathematics, Analysis and Nonlinear PDEs, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. May.

2003: Taught short course on Wavelets, http://pcmi.ias.edu/ IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute, Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, Park City, Utah. July.

1995: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, California, Program in Complex Dynamics and Hyperbolic Geometry.

1991--1992: Yale Prize Teaching Fellowship. Awarded for `excellence in performance as a Teaching Fellow', to eight PhD students chosen from all departments at Yale University.

1986: Tillyard Prize, Australian National University. Awarded to the student whose personal qualities and contribution to University life have been outstanding and who in the year of the award has completed a Degree of Bachelor with Honours.

1986: Hanna Neumann Prize for Mathematics IV (Honours), Australian National University.

Leadership in the mathematics profession

• Chair, AustMS Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group (WIMSIG), 2015--2016
• Member (Chair for 2015), AustMS Fellowships Committee, 2014--2016
• Member, AustMS Medal Committee, 2014
• Member, Executive Committee, AustMS Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group (WIMSIG), 2013--2014
• Chair of Local Organising Committee, Member of Programme Committee, and Treasurer, Jan 2008--June 2009, for the Australian Mathematical Society's 53rd Annual Meeting, held at UniSA, 2009

Membership of professional assocations

• Member, Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS)
• Member, Australia and New Zealand Applied and Industrial Mathematics Division of the AustMS (ANZIAM)
• Member, American Mathematical Society (AMS)
• Member, Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
• Member, Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group of the AustMS (WIMSIG)
• Member, US Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
• Member, Women in Science Enquiry Network (WISENET)

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy Yale University

• Master of Science Yale University

• Masters Philosophy in Mathematics Yale University

• Bachelor of Science Australian National University

Work history

• 2020--present: Professor of Mathematics, UniSA STEM, UniSA
• 2015--2019: Associate Professor of Mathematics, UniSA STEM (until 2020 the School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences), UniSA
• 2006--2014: Senior Lecturer, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences (until 2012 the School of Mathematics and Statistics), UniSA
• 2003--2006: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, USA
• 1997--2003: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, USA
• 1995: Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, CA, USA. Spring semester
• 1994--1997: G.C. Evans Instructor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA