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]
Contributions
Wachs and her advisor Adriano Garsia are the namesakes of the Garsia–Wachs algorithm for optimal binary search trees, which they published in 1977.Template:RTemplate:Ran She is also known for her research on shellings for simplicial complexes,Template:Ran partially ordered sets,Template:Ran and Coxeter groups,Template:Ran and on random permutation statisticsTemplate:Ran and set partition statistics.Template:Ran
Education
Wachs earned her doctorate in 1977 from the University of California, San Diego, under the supervision of Adriano Garsia. Her dissertation was Discrete Variational Techniques in Finite Mathematics.Template:R
Recognition
In 2012 Wachs became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.Template:R In 2013 she and her husband, mathematician Gregory Galloway (the chair of the mathematics department at Miami) were recognized as Simons Fellows.Template:R A conference in her honor was held in January 2015 at the University of Miami.Template:R
Selected publications
References
- ↑ Michelle Wachs, Univ. of Miami, retrieved 2015-01-02.
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Combinatorialists
- University of California, San Diego alumni
- University of Miami faculty
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- 20th-century American women mathematicians
- 21st-century American women mathematicians