Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Born
Bożenna Janina Pasik

1947 (age 77–78)
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.