Leslie M. Smith

Leslie Morgan Smith (born August 15, 1961)[1] is an American applied mathematician, mechanical engineer, and engineering physicist whose research focuses on fluid dynamics and turbulence. She is a professor of mathematics and of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin.

Not to be confused with Leslie Smith III.

Education and career

Smith graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1983.[1] She completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988. Her dissertation, An upper bound with correct scaling laws for turbulent shear flows, was supervised by Willem Malkus.[1][2]

After postdoctoral research at Stanford University, the Université libre de Bruxelles, and Princeton University, she became an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Yale University in 1993, and moved to the University of Wisconsin in 1998,[1] jointly affiliated with the departments of mathematics and mechanical engineering. In 2002 she was promoted to full professor, and moved from mechanical engineering to engineering physics.[3] She served as chair of mathematics from 2005 to 2008, and again 2012 to 2014,[1] becoming the first female chair of the department.[4]

Recognition

Smith was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008 "for important and insightful contributions to the understanding of turbulence in engineering and geophysical flows through theory and numerical simulations".[5]

References
  1. Curriculum vitae (PDF), August 2015, retrieved 2020-06-14
  2. Leslie M. Smith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Sergey Bolotin, Leslie M. Smith, and Fabian Waleffe Promoted to Professor, University of Wisconsin Mathematics, retrieved 2020-06-14
  4. Vaughn, Katie (March 15, 2017), Women in the math department find strength in numbers, University of Wisconsin College of Letters & Science
  5. APS Fellows Nominated by DFD: 2008, American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, retrieved 2020-06-14
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