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Michelle L. Wachs

Berkeley, 2013

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.[2][A]She is also known for her research on shellings for simplicial complexes,[F] partially ordered sets,[C] and Coxeter groups,[B] and on random permutation statistics[E] and set partition statistics.[D]

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.[3]

Recognition

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

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ Michelle Wachs, Univ. of Miami, retrieved 2015-01-02.
  2. ^ Knuth, Donald E. (1998), "Algorithm G (Garsia–Wachs algorithm for optimum binary trees)", The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3: Sorting and Searching (2nd ed.), Addison–Wesley, pp. 451–453. See also History and bibliography, pp. 453–454.
  3. ^ Michelle L. Wachs at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-02.
  5. ^ Meister, Hannah (February 17, 2013), "Math professors recognized with national fellowship", The Miami Hurricane.
  6. ^ A Conference to Celebrate The Mathematics of Michelle Wachs, retrieved 2015-01-02;The Mathematics of Michelle Wachs, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-02.