Professor recognized by her peers as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Félicitations to professor Lia Bronsard on being named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Bronsard, a professor in McMaster University‘s Department of Mathematics & Statistics, is among 40 mathematical scientists who have been named Fellows for 2026 in the program’s 14th year. Recognized by their peers, AMS Fellows have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.

Bronsard did her undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal and earned her PhD from New York University under the supervision of Robert V. Kohn. After short-term positions at Brown University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Carnegie Mellon University, she joined McMaster in 1992. She was president of the Canadian Mathematical Society for 2014–2016.

In her research, Bronsard studies singular problems in the calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differential equations. Her recent interests include liquid crystal defects and geometric partitioning problems, connected to the ciassical isoperimetric inequalities and their nonlocal variants.

Bronsard was the 2010 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize. In 2018, the Canadian Mathematical Society listed her in their inaugural class of Fellows.