| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Association for Women in Mathematics Series |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
| Pages | 389-404 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2022 |
Publication series
| Name | Association for Women in Mathematics Series |
|---|---|
| Volume | 28 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2364-5733 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2364-5741 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Hannah Alpert is an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and a PhD from MIT in 2016 under Larry Guth, where she had an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. In 2016–2017, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) and in 2017– 2019 a Zassenhaus Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Ohio State University. As an undergraduate she was a Goldwater Scholar and participated in three REUs. Alpert has published papers in geometric topology and combinatorics. Reflecting on the impact of receiving the Schafer Prize, Alpert said in 2019:
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Caroline J. Klivans is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Brown University and a deputy director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM). She received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a PhD from MIT in 2003 under Richard Stanley with support from an NSF Graduate Fellowship. She then held postdoctoral positions at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and at Cornell. From 2004 to 2008 she was an L. E. Dickson Instructor and VIGRE postdoctoral fellow in the departments of mathematics and computer science at the University of Chicago. Her research interests are in algebraic, geometric and topological combinatorics. Along with numerous publications, Klivans is the author of the book The Mathematics of Chip-Firing published in 2018. She has given over 90 invited talks.
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Melanie Matchett Wood is a professor at Harvard and a Chancellor’s Professor at UC Berkeley. She received a bachelor’s degree from Duke and a PhD from Princeton in 2009 under Manjul Bhargava. Her research interests include number theory, arithmetic and algebraic geometry, topology, probability, and random groups. Wood was the first American women to be a Putnam Fellow and the first woman to win the AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan prize for Outstanding Research by an Undergraduate. Her many other awards include: AMS Fellow, NSF CAREER Award, AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory, American Institute of Mathematics 5-Year Fellowship, Sloan Research Fellowship, and Packard Fellowship. In 2018 she was a Minerva Distinguished Visitor at Princeton. She has published more than 35 papers in number theory and given over 100 invited talks. On receiving the award, Wood said:
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Jessica Shepherd Purcell is an associate professor of mathematics at Monash University in Australia. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and a PhD in 2004 from Stanford University under Steven Kerckhoff. After three years as a postdoc at UT Austin, Purcell spent the years 2007–2015 at Brigham Young University. She has published over 35 papers on low-dimensional topology and has given more than 75 invited talks. Purcell has received an NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. Purcell said on receiving the award,
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Melody Chan is a Manning Assistant Professor at Brown. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from Yale University and, supported by NSF and NDSEG Fellowships, a PhD from UC Berkeley in 2012 under Bernd Sturmfels. From 2012 to 2015, she was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the mathematics department at Harvard. Her research interests are combinatorial algebraic geometry, graph theory, and tropical geometry. From 2000 to 2001, Chan studied the violin at the Juilliard School with Itzhak Perlman and Dorothy DeLay. She has over 20 publications, over 500 citations, and has given over 90 invited talks. She is a Sloan Research Fellow and an NSF CAREER Award winner, and received the 2020 AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory. In response to winning the award, Chan said,