BOZENNA PASIK-DUNCAN received her Master's degree in Mathematics from University of Warsaw in 1970, and her Ph.D. and D.Sc. (Habilitation) degrees in Mathematics from the Warsaw School of Economics in 1978 and 1986 respectively. She is a Professor of Mathematics, a Courtesy Professor of EECS, and an ITTC Investigator at the University of Kansas (KU). Her research interests are primarily in stochastic systems and stochastic adaptive control, system identification and estimation, and control education as a field that spans science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.

Dr. Pasik-Duncan has been actively involved with the IEEE CSS. She serves as Chair of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Control Education and IEEE CSS Liaison to IEEE WIE. She was an Associate Editor and Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Chair of the Standing Committees on Assistance of Engineers at Risk and International Affairs, and Founder and First Chair of the WiC Group. She served as CSS Vice-President of Member Activities. Dr. Pasik-Duncan is also associated with the IFAC as Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Control Education and currently serves on the IFAC Technical Board and IFAC Awards Committee. She was formerly involved with SIAM and the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory in a number of capacities.

Dr. Pasik-Duncan is an IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Member of the CSS, and a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. She has received many awards, including the Kemper Award, H.O.P.E Award, L. Hay Award, Steeples Service to Kansas Award and is a member of the KU Women's Hall of Fame. She served on the Friends of the Lied Center Board and currently serves on the SMA Academic Program Advisory Board. She is Founder and Faculty Advisor to the AWM Student Chapter at KU, Founder and Coordinator of the MAM / Outreach Program, and faculty advisor for the NSF GK-12 Program at KU.
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Professor, Department of Mathematics
503 Snow Hall, University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
Telephone: (785) 864-5162
Email: bozenna@math.ku.edu

Upcoming Events

2013 American Control Conference (ACC 2013), June 17-19, 2013, Washingon, DC

SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT13), July 8-10, 2013, San Diego, CA

10th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education (ACE 2013), August 28-30, 2013, Sheffield, UK

26th IFIP TC7 Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, September 9-13, 2013, Klagenfurt, Austria

52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2013), December 10-13, 2013, Florence, Italy

19th IFAC World Congress, August 24-29, 2014, Cape Town, South Africa


Recent Events

International Banach Center Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Control, 50 Years of Scientific Activities of Professor Jerzy Zabczyk, May 5-10, 2013, Bedlewo, Poland

Enhancing the Sustainability of Women in Technology, January 23-24, 2013, Mountain View, CA

The Ideas and Technology of Control Systems Workshop at the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2012), December 10-13, 2012, Maui, HI

NSF Workshop on Frontiers of Stochastic Systems, Networks and Control, October 26-28, 2012, College Station, TX

Spring 2013 Courses

Math 121 - Engineering Calculus I

Math 728 - Statistical Theory


News

Making Connections: Mother-daughter duo builds on math

"Making connections is my passion," says Dr. Bozenna Pasik-Duncan. To that end, it isn't hard for her—or for anyone—to see the clear connection between the professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas (KU) and her daughter, Dominique Duncan. In addition to teaching, Pasik-Duncan has dedicated her life to researching stochastic adaptive control and theories of randomness, while Dominique has long been fascinated by predictability, specifically the ability to predict seizures in epilepsy patients.  more

On Recent Activities of Control Education Committee: 10 Years of AACC Outreach Efforts and Educational Activities

This year marked the tenth anniversary of the Ideas and Technology Control Systems workshop for middle and high school teachers and students. These workshops are held twice a year in conjunction with the American Control Conference and the Conference on Decision and Control. The workshops were presented to over 3,000 students and teachers.  more (see pg. 4)

Watershed moments shaped Professor Bozenna Pasik-Duncan’s love for teaching, mathematics

There have been several key events in Bozenna Pasik-Duncan’s life, transitional moments that changed her path and led her to where she is today, to the United States and to Kansas University, where she is one of the most honored professors to ever work in the university’s math department.  more

Resources & Links

AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) KU Student Chapter

AACC (American Automatic Control Council)

AACC Technical Committee on Education

IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

IEEE WIE (Women in Engineering)

IEEE WIE Committee

IEEE CSS (Control Systems Society)

IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Control Education

IEEE CSS WIC (Women in Control)

IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control)

IFAC Technical Committee on Control Education

IFAC Control Resources

KU Department of Mathematics

KU EECS (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

KU ITTC (Information and Telecommunications Technology Center)

MAM (Mathematics Awareness Month)

SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory