Sylvia Margaret Wiegand (born March 8, 1945) is an American mathematician.[1]
Sylvia Margaret Wiegand | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 8, 1945 |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Commutative algebra math education, history of math |
| Thesis | Galois Theory of Essential Expansions of Modules and Vanishing Tensor Powers (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lawrence S. Levy |
| Doctoral students | Christina Eubanks-Turner |
Early life and education
Wiegand was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She is the daughter of mathematician Laurence Chisholm Young and through him the grand-daughter of mathematicians Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young.[2] Her family moved to Wisconsin in 1949, and she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1966 after three years of study.[1] In 1971 Wiegand earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[3] Her dissertation was titled Galois Theory of Essential Expansions of Modules and Vanishing Tensor Powers.[3]
Career
In 1987, she was named full professor at the University of Nebraska; at the time Wiegand was the only female professor in the department.[1] In 1988 Sylvia headed a search committee for two new jobs in the math department, for which two women were hired, although one stayed only a year and another left after four years.[4] In 1996 Sylvia and her husband, Roger Wiegand, established a fellowship for graduate student research at the university in honor of Sylvia's grandparents.[5]
From 1997 until 2000, Wiegand was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[6][7]
Wiegand has been an editor for Communications in Algebra and the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics.[2] She was on the board of directors of the Canadian Mathematical Society from 1997 to 2000.[2]
Wiegand was an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large.[8]
Awards and recognition
Wiegand is featured in the book Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, published in 1998.[1] For her work in improving the status of women in mathematics, she was awarded the University of Nebraska's Outstanding Contribution to the Status of Women Award in 2000.[4] In May 2005, the University of Nebraska hosted the Nebraska Commutative Algebra Conference: WiegandFest "in celebration of the many important contributions of Sylvia and her husband Roger Wiegand."[1]
In 2012 she became a fellow of the AMS.[9]
In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[10]
References
External links
- Sylvia Wiegand's homepage
- Sylvia Wiegand's Author profile on MathSciNet