Lia Bronsard

In her research, she has used geometric flows to model the interface dynamics of reaction–diffusion systems.[3] Other topics in her research include pattern formation, grain boundaries, and vortices in superfluids.[4]

Bronsard is originally from Québec. She did her undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal, graduating in 1983,[4] and earned her PhD in 1988 from New York University under the supervision of Robert V. Kohn.[5]

After short-term positions at Brown University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Carnegie Mellon University, she moved to McMaster in 1992.[4] She was president of the Canadian Mathematical Society for 2014–2016.[2][6]

Bronsard was the 2010 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize.[4] In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed her in their inaugural class of fellows.[7]

• Bronsard, Lia; Kohn, Robert V. (1990), "On the slowness of phase boundary motion in one space dimension", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 43 (8): 983–997, doi:10.1002/cpa.3160430804, MR 1075075
• Bronsard, Lia; Kohn, Robert V. (1991), "Motion by mean curvature as the singular limit of Ginzburg–Landau dynamics", Journal of Differential Equations, 90 (2): 211–237, Bibcode:1991JDE....90..211B, doi:10.1016/0022-0396(91)90147-2, MR 1101239
• Bronsard, Lia; Reitich, Fernando (1993), "On three-phase boundary motion and the singular limit of a vector-valued Ginzburg–Landau equation", Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 124 (4): 355–379, Bibcode:1993ArRMA.124..355B, doi:10.1007/BF00375607, MR 1240580

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