Professor Ingrid Daubechies, James B Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University, has been awarded a prestigious honorary degree at Encaenia, the annual ceremony in Oxford. Professor Daubechies is a leading authority on wavelet theory. In 1987 she constructed a class of wavelets that were identically zero outside a finite interval, now among the most common type of wavelets used in applications. She was the first woman full professor of mathematics at Princeton University and the first woman president of the International Mathematical Union.
