Jane Margaret Hawkins is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
More recent research has included work on cellular automata models for the spread of HIV, Hepatitis C and Ebola.
Her dissertation, Type III Diffeomorphisms of Manifolds, concerned dynamical systems and ergodic theory.
[6] In 2004, Hawkins presented testimony to a subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations in support of grants to mathematical research, and again in 2012.
[7][8] She served as Treasurer of the American Mathematical Society, chair of the AMS Investment Committee, and Board of Trustees Member from 2011 until February 1, 2021.