Judy L. Walker

Judy Leavitt Walker is an American mathematician. She is the Aaron Douglas Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she chaired the mathematics department from 2012 through 2016 and currently serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs. Her research is in the area of algebraic coding theory.

In 2012, Walker became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

Throughout her career, Walker has worked on issues related to women in mathematics. She is co-founder of the University of Nebraska's All Girls/All Math program for high school girls; she represented her department at the White House when they were recognized with a 1998 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering mentoring; and she is co-founder of the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.

Education Walker graduated from the University of Michigan in 1990,

Career She joined the University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty in 1996, was promoted to full professor in 2006 and took up the Aaron Douglas Professorship in 2012. Irving Reiner Memorial Award (University of Illinois Department of Mathematics, 1996) Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (2019) 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Selected publications C. Curto, V. Itskov, K. Morrison, Z. Roth, J. Walker (2013), "Combinatorial neural codes from a mathematical coding theory perspective", Neural Computation, 25, No. 7: 1891-1925. Online pdf N. Axvig, D.T. Dreher, K. Morrison, E. Psota, L.C. Pérez, J. Walker (2009), "Analysis of connections between pseudocodewords", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 55: 4099-4107. Online pdf . Online PDF . Online pdf J. Walker (2000), "Codes and Curves", Student Mathematical Library, IAS/Park City Mathematical Subseries, 7. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI. Online pdf J.-F. Voloch, J. Walker (2000), "Euclidean weights of codes from elliptic curves over rings", Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 352: 5063–5076. Online pdf J. Walker (1999), "Algebraic geometric codes over rings", Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 144: 91-110. Online pdf J. Walker (1997), "The Nordstrom Robinson code is algebraic geometric", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 43: 1588-1593.