2022-Gala Program Online Honoree -4.14.2022

HONOREE
PROFESSOR DUSA MCDUFF
National Academy of Sciences
Dusa McDuff is the Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42
Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College.
She gained her early teaching experience at the
University of York, the University of Warwick,
and MIT. In 1978, she joined the faculty of SUNY
Stony Brook, where she was awarded the title
of Distinguished Professor in 1998. She holds a
bachelor’s degree from the University of Edinburgh and a doctorate from
the University of Cambridge.
Together with Dietmar Salamon, Professor McDuff has written several
foundational books on symplectic topology as well as many research
articles. She is best known for her work in the geometry of multidimensional
structures, which has been credited with opening a new
branch of mathematics and providing new understandings in a range of
mathematical topics.
Professor McDuff serves on the board of trustees of the Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute. She is a fellow of the Royal Society,
a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the
American Philosophical Society, and an honorary fellow of Girton College,
Cambridge. In addition, she has received the Satter Prize from the
American Mathematical Society and the Outstanding Woman Scientist
Award from the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), and she holds
honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, the University of
York, and the University of Strasbourg.