Catherine Sulem

Catherine Sulem FRSC (born 1955)^[1] is a mathematician and violinist at the University of Toronto.

She has completed a monograph "Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation: Self-Focusing Instability and Wave Collapse" together with her brother Pierre-Louis Sulem, which appears in applied Mathematical Sciences.^[2]

In 1983, Sulem was awarded her PhD by the University of Paris-Nord under the supervision of Professors Claude Bardos. After taking up positions at the University of Nice and École Normale Supérieure in Paris, she became a professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto in 1990^[3]. Since then, Sulem published many works on nonlinear partial differential equations, with a particular focus on the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation^[4] and gravitational waves^[5].

Sulem is the winner of the fourth Krieger–Nelson Prize, for "important breakthroughs in understanding of many nonlinear phenomena associated with the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the water wave problem".^[6] She is also a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[7] In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.^[8] In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed her in their inaugural class of fellows.^[9] In 2019 she gave the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture, entitled The Dynamics of Ocean Waves, at the 7th ICIAM in Valencia.^[3] This lecture is awarded jointly by Association of Women in Mathematics and SIAM. In 2020, Sulem was awarded the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize, the premier Canadian research prize in the mathematical sciences. She was elected to the 2023 Class of SIAM Fellows.^[10] In 2024, Sulem was also awarded the Jeffery-Williams Prize by the Canadian Mathematical Society for her significant contributions to research in nonlinear partial differential equations and fluid dynamics ^[11].

Books

• Sulem, Catherine; Sulem, Pierre-Louis (1999), The nonlinear Schrödinger equation: Self-focusing and wave collapse, Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol. 139, Springer-Verlag, New York, ISBN 0-387-98611-1, MR 1696311.

Research articles

• Sulem, Catherine; Sulem, Pierre-Louis; Frisch, Hélène (1983), "Tracing complex singularities with spectral methods", Journal of Computational Physics, 50 (1): 138–161, Bibcode:1983JCoPh..50..138S, doi:10.1016/0021-9991(83)90045-1, MR 0702063.
• Sulem, P.-L.; Sulem, C.; Bardos, C. (1986), "On the continuous limit for a system of classical spins", Communications in Mathematical Physics, 107 (3): 431–454, Bibcode:1986CMaPh.107..431S, doi:10.1007/bf01220998, MR 0866199, S2CID 122322088.
• Craig, W.; Sulem, C. (1993), "Numerical simulation of gravity waves", Journal of Computational Physics, 108 (1): 73–83, Bibcode:1993JCoPh.108...73C, doi:10.1006/jcph.1993.1164, MR 1239970.
• Buslaev, Vladimir S.; Sulem, Catherine (2003), "On asymptotic stability of solitary waves for nonlinear Schrödinger equations", Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, 20 (3): 419–475, doi:10.1016/S0294-1449(02)00018-5, MR 1972870.
• Craig, W.; Guyenne, P.; Hammack, J.; Henderson, D.; Sulem, C. (2006), "Solitary water wave interactions", Physics of Fluids, 18 (5): 057106–057106–25, Bibcode:2006PhFl...18e7106C, doi:10.1063/1.2205916, MR 2259317.

• Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto
• List of Publications