The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are pleased to announce that Professor Fioralba Cakoni will be the 2026 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. The Kovalevsky Lecture will be delivered at the 2026 SIAM Annual Meeting taking place in Cleveland, Ohio, July 6 –10, 2026. A full press release is attached.

The Kovalevsky Lecture honors Sonia Kovalevsky (1850–1891), the most widely known Russian mathematician of the late-nineteenth century. In 1874, Kovalevsky received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Göttingen and was appointed lecturer at the University of Stockholm in 1883. Kovalevsky did her most important work in the theory of differential equations. Cakoni was recommended for this award by a joint AWM-SIAM Kovalevsky Selection Committee (Claudia Falcon, Irene Fonseca, Noemi Petra (Chair), and Josef Sifuentes).

Please join AWM and SIAM in congratulating Fioralba Cakoni!

Read the Press Release here.