Michelle L. Wachs

Michelle Lynn Wachs is an American mathematician who specializes in algebraic combinatorics and works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Miami.[1]

Wachs earned her doctorate in 1977 from the University of California, San Diego, under the supervision of Adriano Garsia.[2]

In 2012 she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[3] In 2013 she and her husband, mathematician Gregory Galloway (the chair of the mathematics department at Miami) were recognized as Simons Fellows.[4] A conference in her honor was held in January 2015 at the University of Miami.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Michelle Wachs, Univ. of Miami, retrieved 2015-01-02.
  2. ↑ Michelle L. Wachs at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-02.
  4. ↑ Meister, Hannah (February 17, 2013), "Math professors recognized with national fellowship", The Miami Hurricane.
  5. ↑ A Conference to Celebrate The Mathematics of Michelle Wachs, retrieved 2015-01-02.
  6. ↑ The Mathematics of Michelle Wachs, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-02.
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