2013 SIAM Annual Meeting & Conference
on Control and its Applications
Margaret Cheney Delivers Prestigious Sonia Kovalesvsky Lecture
Margaret Cheney delivered the prestigious Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture in the 2013 SIAM Annual Meeting in San
Diego. She was selected by The Associate for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Cheney is Yates Chair and Professor of Mathematics who also holds a joint appointment in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University.
She is featured in the September 2013 Volume 46/Number 7 of the SIAM News, see details below.
1Margaret Cheney (right) of Colorado State
University
and the
Naval Postgraduate School,
pictured here with AWM past president Jill Pipher, titled
her 2013 AWM–SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture “An
Introduction to Radar Imaging.” According to the
selection committee, Cheney has spearheaded “a broad
line of research that is coupling disparate radar solutions
in ways previ- ously unrecognized. Her application of
Microlocal Analysis to high-frequency radar scattering—
a method largely unknown to the radar community—
has proven to be especially relevant to the problems
of radar target detection, tracking, and imaging. Using
these tools, she has shown how the essential behavior
of a wide variety of radar scattering scenarios can be
isolated from secondary phenomena.
”Cheney’s unconventional approach has led to
solutions to several longstanding problems in radar
imaging that heretofore defied complete a sis, the
committee concluded. She “has demonstrated how a
class of important issues in modern radar can finally be
addressed.”