Dawn Lott
Dawn Alisha Lott is an applied mathematician at Delaware State University,[1] where she is a professor in the department of physical and computational sciences[2] and, since 2009, the director of the university's honors program.[3]
Research
Lott's research concerns numerical partial differential equations in solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and biomechanics.[3][4] She has also published several papers on solitons.[1]
Education and career
Lott is African-American.[5] She graduated from Bucknell University in 1987, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from Michigan State University in 1989.[1] She did her doctoral work in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University, completing her Ph.D. in 1994. Her dissertation, Adaptive Chebyshev Pseudo-Spectral Approximation for Shear Band Formation in Viscoplastic Materials, was jointly supervised by Alvin Bayliss and Ted Belytschko.[1][6]
After postdoctoral research from 1994 to 1997 at the University of Maryland, College Park, Lott became a faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1998.[5] She moved to Delaware State in 2003.[3]In 2004, she was an EDGE instructor.[7]
Recognition
Lott was the AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer for 2011. Her lecture concerned the mathematical treatment of aneurysms.[4]
In 2013, Delaware State gave her their award for Faculty Excellence in Advising,[8] and in 2014 they gave her their award for Faculty Excellence in University and Community Service.[9]
Lott's accomplishments earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2019 Honoree.[10]
References
- Biography of Dr. Dawn A. Lott, retrieved 2018-10-31
- Faculty Profiles, Delaware State University, retrieved 2018-10-31
- Dr. Dawn Lott named new director of Honors Program at DSU, Delaware State University, July 9, 2009, retrieved 2018-10-31
- "Dawn Lott", Past Falconer Lecturers, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2018-10-31. See also Lott's talk abstract.
- Williams, Scott W., "Dawn A. Lott", Black Women in Mathematics, University at Buffalo, retrieved 2018-10-31
- Dawn Lott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "EDGE for Women". Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- DSU Presents its 2013 Faculty Excellence Awards, Delaware State University, May 30, 2013, retrieved 2018-10-31
- DSU Announces 2014 Faculty Excellence Award Recipients, Delaware State University, May 30, 2014, retrieved 2018-10-31
- "Dawn A. Lott". Mathematically Gifted & Black.