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Short description: American mathematician
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
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Wachs, Michelle; White, Dennis (1991), "[math]\displaystyle{ p,q }[/math]-Stirling numbers and set partition statistics", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 56 (1): 27–46, doi:10.1016/0097-3165(91)90020-H
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| E. |
"Permutation statistics and linear extensions of posets", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 58 (1): 85–114, 1991, doi:10.1016/0097-3165(91)90075-R
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References
- ↑ Michelle Wachs, Univ. of Miami, retrieved 2015-01-02.
- ↑ "Algorithm G (Garsia–Wachs algorithm for optimum binary trees)", The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3: Sorting and Searching (2nd ed.), Addison–Wesley, 1998, pp. 451–453 . See also History and bibliography, pp. 453–454.
- ↑ Michelle L. Wachs at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-02.
- ↑ Meister, Hannah (February 17, 2013), "Math professors recognized with national fellowship", The Miami Hurricane, http://www.themiamihurricane.com/2013/02/17/math-professors-recognized-with-national-fellowship/ .
- ↑ 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.
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