Biography:Aissa Wade
Aissa Wade | |
|---|---|
| Born | Dakar |
| Alma mater | University of Montpellier Cheikh Anta Diop University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University |
| Thesis | Normalization for Poisson structures |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean Paul Dufour |
Aissa Wade is a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. She was the President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences centre in Senegal (from 2016 to 2018).
Early life and education
Wade was born in Dakar, Senegal.[1] She studied mathematics at Cheikh Anta Diop University and graduated in 1993.[2] She had to leave Senegal to earn a Ph.D. as there were no opportunities in Africa.[3] Wade earned her Ph.D. at the University of Montpellier in 1996.[2] Her thesis, "Normalisation formelle de structures de Poisson", considered symplectic geometry.[4][5] Her doctoral advisor was Jean Paul Dufour.[6][7]
Career
Wade became a postdoctoral researcher at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, where she worked on conformal Dirac structures.[2][8] She held visiting faculty positions at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, African University of Science and Technology and Paul Sabatier University.[9] Wade joined Pennsylvania State University and was appointed full professor in 2016.
She served as a managing editor of The African Diaspora Journal of Mathematics.[10] She is editor of Afrika Mathematika.[9] She is on the scientific committee of the NextEinstein forum, an initiative to connect science, society and policy in Africa.[11] As the President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Wade was the first woman to hold this role.[12][13] She has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to support the Senegal Workshop on Geometric Structures.[14][15] She has been involved with American Association for the Advancement of Science activities to enhance African STEM research, including the provision of evidence-based metrics, case studies and policy recommendations.[16][17] In 2017 Wade was named a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.[18][13]
Wade's accomplishments earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black, where she was featured as a Black History Month 2020 Honoree.[19]
References
- ↑ "Aissa Wade". https://www.icm2022-paris.com/medias/content/files/Aissa_Wade.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Aissa Wade, Mathematician of the African Diaspora". http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/wade_aissa.html.
- ↑ (www.dw.com), Deutsche Welle. "Transforming Africa with science and technology? | DW | 25.02.2016" (in en). http://www.dw.com/en/transforming-africa-with-science-and-technology/a-19060805.
- ↑ Paulus., Gerdes (2007). African doctorates in mathematics : a catalogue. African Mathematical Union. Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa.. Maputo, Mozambique: Research Centre for Mathematics, Culture and Education. ISBN 9781430318675. OCLC 123226819.
- ↑ Wade, Aïssa (1997-03-01). "Normalisation formelle de structures de Poisson" (in en). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série I 324 (5): 531–536. doi:10.1016/S0764-4442(99)80385-1. ISSN 0764-4442. Bibcode: 1997CRASM.324..531W.
- ↑ "Aïssa Wade - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=31158.
- ↑ Dufour, Jean-Paul; Wade, Aissa (2008). "On the local structure of Dirac manifolds". Compositio Mathematica 144 (3): 774–786. doi:10.1112/S0010437X07003272. ISSN 0010-437X.
- ↑ Wade, Aissa. "Conformal Dirac Structures". http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/31/051/31051269.pdf.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Allemand, Luc. "Aissa Wade - EN" (in en-GB). http://www.yase-conference.eu/index.php/en/11-pages-en/145-aissa-wade-en.
- ↑ "| Mathematical Research Publishers". 2021-04-15. https://math-res-pub.org/adjm/editorial-board.
- ↑ "Aissa Wade" (in en-US). Next Einstein Forum. 2015-12-02. https://nef.org/about-us/spc/aissa-wade/.
- ↑ groupe, G. I. D. (2016-03-16), 1er Forum GID-FastDev - Mme Aissa Wade, https://vimeo.com/159193045, retrieved 2018-05-25
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "AAS Fellows in Senegal" (in en). https://aasciences.ac.ke/aas/en/recognising-excellence/aas-fellows-in-senegal-/.
- ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#1208297 - Senegal Workshop on Geometric Structures and Control Theory". https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1208297.
- ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#0715543 - International Conference on Geometry and Physics". https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0715543.
- ↑ "Global Best Practices Creating a pipeline for STEM @ AIMS". 2017-05-15. https://www.wpi.edu/sites/default/files/docs/Offices/Dean-of-Engineering/Aissa%20Wade-%20Global%20Best%20Practices-ilovepdf-compressed.pdf.
- ↑ "Session: Enhancing African STEM Research and Capacity with International Collaboration (2016 AAAS Annual Meeting (February 11-15, 2016))". https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2016/webprogram/Session12012.html.
- ↑ "University dons dominate new list of AAS fellows - University World News". http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2018030909095990.
- ↑ "Aissa Wade". https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/aissa-wade/.
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