Lesley A. Ward

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College

Education:

• Yale University, Ph.D., May 1994.
• Yale University, M.Phil., May 1992.
• Yale University, M.S., May 1989.
• Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden, Sept-Dec 1990.
• Australian National University, B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Pure Mathematics, May 1987.

Honours and Awards:

• MAA Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member, 2006. HMC announcement.
• WEIS Visiting Fellowship, National Institute for Engineering and Information Sciences (NIEIS),
  Australian National University, Semester 1, 2004.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, MSRI, Program in Complex Dynamics and Hyperbolic Geometry, Jan-June 1995.
• Yale Prize Teaching Fellowship, Sept 1991-May 1992.
• Yale University Fellowship, 1987-1991.
• ANU Postbachelor Travelling Scholarship, 1987-1990.
• National Undergraduate Scholarship, ANU, 1982-1986.
• Caltex Woman Graduate of the Year State Prize (New South Wales), 1986.
• Hanna Neumann Prize, Australian National University, 1986.
• Tillyard Prize, Australian National University, 1986.

Some Previous Work Experience:

• G. C. Evans Instructor, Rice University, 1994-1997.
• Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 1987-1993.
• Center for Talented Youth, John Hopkins University, July, 1990; July, 1989.
• President of Students' Association, ANU, Dec 84-Nov 85.
• Assistant Research Officer, International Branch, Department of Science,
  Australian Public Service, Feb-July 87.

IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) 2003:

• Gave undergraduate course on Wavelets, at PCMI 2003 (Harmonic Analysis and PDEs).

IAS/Princeton University Program for Women in Mathematics 2004:

• With Cristina Pereyra, gave undergraduate course on Harmonic Analysis: from Fourier to Haar,
  at the PWM in May 2004 (Analysis and Nonlinear PDEs). Book in progress.

Conference Organizer:

• Mt Baldy Conference on Analysis, HMC, 20 November 1999.

National Activities:

• Speaker at Engaging Young Mathematicians: An NSF Workshop on majors
  and the transition to graduate work (organized by AMS/MAA/ASA/SIAM).
  One of two speakers on the panel Cultivating graduate students in the liberal arts environment.
  12-13 August, 2005.
• Member, AWM Long-Range Planning Committee, Fall 2004-present.
• Assocation for Women in Mathematics AWM-NSF Travel Grants Committee,
  1999--2000. Chair, May 2000 cycle.
  Co-PI on NSF grant proposal for renewal of AWM-NSF Travel Grants funding for 2001--4.

Publications:

• BMO from dyadic BMO on the bidisc, with Jill Pipher.
  In preparation. 31 pages. PDF version.
• Convergence properties of harmonic measure distributions for planar domains, with Marie A. Snipes*.
  Submitted, June 2005. 20 pages.
• Authority rankings from HITS, PageRank, and SALSA:
  Existence, uniqueness, and effect of initialization,
  with Ayman Farahat, Thomas LoFaro, Joel C. Miller*, and Gregory Rae*.
  Here is the PDF version of the FLMRW paper.
  January 2005. To appear, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC). 20 pages.
  
• A harmonic measure interpretation of the arithmetic-geometric mean, with Byron L. Walden.
  Submitted, June 2003. To appear in the American Mathematical Monthly, subject to revisions. 9 pages.
• Realising step functions as harmonic measure distributions of planar domains, with Marie A. Snipes*.
  Here is the PDF version of the Snipes--Ward AASF paper.
  Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Math., Vol 30 (2005), 353--360.
• Translation averages of dyadic weights are not always good weights.
  Revista Matematica Iberoamericana, Vol. 18 (2002), No. 2, 379--407.
• Modifications of Kleinberg's HITS algorithm using matrix exponentiation and web log records,
  with Joel C. Miller*, Gregory Rae*, Fred Schaefer*, Thomas LoFaro, and Ayman Farahat.
  Proceedings of the SIGIR2001 Conference, New Orleans, September 2001, 444--445.
• Asymptotic behaviour of distributions of harmonic measure for planar domains, with Byron L. Walden.
  Complex Variables: Theory and Applications, Vol. 46 (2001), 157--177.
• Fuchsian groups, quasiconformal groups, and conical limit sets, with Peter W. Jones.
  Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 352 (2000), 311--362. (MSRI preprint No. 1996-024.)
• Quasisymmetrically thick sets, with Susan G. Staples.
  Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Ser. A I Math., Vol. 23 (1998), 151--168.
• Paraexponentials, Muckenhoupt weights, and resolvents of paraproducts, with M. Cristina Pereyra.
  Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 126 (1998), 135--144.
  (MSRI preprint No. 1996-031.)
• Distributions of harmonic measure for planar domains, with Byron L. Walden,
  in Proceedings of the 16th Nevanlinna Colloquium, Joensuu, Finland, 1995.
  Eds. Laine and Martio, Walter de Gruyter & Co. (1995), 289--299.
  (UNSW Pure Mathematics Report PM95/21.)
• On the conical limit set of a complex hyperbolic group, with Gaven J. Martin.
  Mathematics Research Report No. MRR 046-95,
  Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, ANU, Canberra, 1995. 26 pages.
• (Non-mathematical) Choice, active learning, and women's experiences in post-secondary education,
  in `The Learner in Higher Education: A Forgotten Species?',
  Miller, A.H. and Sasche-Akerlind, G. (eds.), Sydney, 1987.
• (Non-mathematical) Equity Goals,
  in `Student Assistance for the Disadvantaged: Practice and Prospect',
  Commonwealth Department of Education, Canberra, 1986.

Talks:

• Invited speaker, Annual Meeting, Southwestern Section of the MAA and ArizMATYC, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. The Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Clinic. April 2006.
• Invited speaker, Celebration of Women in MSE, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, California. Introduction to Wavelets. April 2005.
• Invited speaker, Conference on Complex Hyperbolic Geometry and Discrete Groups, March 1998, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan.
• American Math Society: (i) Harmonic Analysis session, AMS Eastern Section meeting in Williamstown, MA, March 2002; (ii) Complex Analysis session, AMS Central Section meeting in Lawrence, KS, March 2001; (iii) Conformal Analysis session, AMS regional meeting in Chattanooga, TN, October 1996; (iv) Quasiconformal Mappings session, AMS/MAA Joint Meetings, January 1994.
• Other conference talks: New Mexico Analysis Seminar, March 6--8, 2003.
• Analysis Seminars/Colloquia: Rice University; MSRI; Yale University; Australian National University (4); Macquarie University; University of Texas at Austin; CUNY Graduate Center; Vassar College; Emory University; University of California at Davis; Joint Colloquium, Sydney University and University of New South Wales; Texas A&M University; Texas Christian University; IMPA (Rio de Janeiro); University of New Mexico (2); Claremont Colleges Colloquium (3); University of Southern California; University of Durham, UK; UCLA (2); Cal State Fresno; Santa Clara University; UC Irvine; Universite de Paris-Sud XI, Orsay; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; University of New England, Armidale, Australia; IAS/Princeton Program for Women in Mathematics; Cal State Univ. Long Beach; Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; University of Arizona.
• Other: Wavelets talk for general audience (`cross-program') at Park City Math Institute; Reunion address for Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Program; Math Workshops at Society for Women Engineers (SWE) Women Engineers and Scientists of Tomorrow (WEST) conferences for high school girls, HMC; Yale Math Club; Rice Women In Science and Engineering; Southern Connecticut State University Math Club; Women and Maths Group of Warwick University.

Co-authors:

Service:

• Faculty Executive Committee, HMC, 2004--6.
• Curriculum Committee, Claremont Intercollegiate Women's Studies Program,
  several semesters during 2001--6.
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Faculty Sponsor, HMC, 1998--2000.
• Organizer of Math Major Night, HMC, 2000--1, 2005.
• Development of new Math Core curriculum, HMC, 1997--9.
• Organizer of Math Grad School Info Night, Claremont, 1997--2001, 2005.
• Faculty Associate, Brown College, Rice University, 1996--7.
• Graduate Committee, Dept. of Math., Rice University, 1995--7.
• Pre-thesis Advisor, Dept. of Math., Rice University, 1996.
• Undergraduate Colloquium, Dept. of Math., Rice University, 1995--6.
• Graduate Teaching Seminar, Dept. of Math., Rice University, 1995.
• Presentation about mathematics to 5th graders, Rice School, 1994.
• Current Math Seminar, Dept. of Math., Rice University, 1994--5.
• Women in Science and Engineering Group (WISE), Faculty Sponsor, Rice University, 1994--5.

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