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{{short description|American mathematician}}
{{Short description|American mathematician (born 1981)}}
{{Infobox scientist
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Melanie Wood
| name = Melanie Wood
| image = Melanie Wood.jpg
| image = Melanie Wood 2019.jpg
| image_size = 225px
| image_size = 225px
| caption = Wood in 2019
| caption = Melanie Wood in 2007<br /> Photo from [[Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach|Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach]] (MFO)
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1981}}
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1981}}
| birth_place = [[Indianapolis, Indiana]]
| birth_place = [[Indianapolis]], Indiana
| death_date =
| death_date =
| death_place =
| death_place =
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
| nationality = American
| fields = [[Mathematics]]
| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = [[Stanford University]]<br />[[University of Wisconsin]]<br /> [[University of California, Berkeley]]<br />[[Harvard University]]
| workplaces = [[Stanford University]]<br />[[University of Wisconsin]]<br /> [[University of California, Berkeley]]<br />[[Harvard University]]
| alma_mater = [[Park Tudor School]]<br />[[Duke University]]<br />[[University of Cambridge]], [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]]<br />[[Princeton University]]
| alma_mater = [[Duke University]]<br />[[Trinity College, Cambridge]]<br />[[Princeton University]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Manjul Bhargava]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Manjul Bhargava]]
| thesis_title = Moduli spaces for rings and ideals
| thesis_title = Moduli spaces for rings and ideals
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| doctoral_students =
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| known_for =
| known_for =
| awards = [[Morgan Prize]] (2004)<br>
| awards = [[Morgan Prize]] (2004)<br />
[[NSF CAREER Award]] (2017)<br>
[[NSF CAREER Award]] (2017)<br />
[[AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory]] (2018)
[[AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory]] (2018)
}}
}}


'''Melanie Matchett Wood''' (born 1981<ref>{{cite web|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/student-essay-contest/2007-student-essay-contest-results/grand-prize-winner/|title=AWM Essay Contest: Leena Shah|access-date=11 November 2014}}</ref>) is an American [[mathematician]] at [[Harvard University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://math.berkeley.edu/~mmwood/MWoodCV.pdf |title=Melanie Matchett Wood |website=math.berkeley.edu |access-date=2019-07-27}}</ref> who was the first woman to qualify for the U.S. [[International Mathematical Olympiad]] Team. She completed her [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 2009 at [[Princeton University]] (under [[Manjul Bhargava]]) and is currently Professor of Mathematics at [[Harvard University]], after being Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics at [[UC Berkeley]] and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the [[University of Wisconsin]], and spending 2 years as Szegö Assistant Professor at [[Stanford University]]. She is a [[number theorist]]; more specifically, her research centers on arithmetic statistics, with excursions into related questions in arithmetic geometry and probability theory.
'''Melanie Matchett Wood''' (born 1981)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/student-essay-contest/2007-student-essay-contest-results/grand-prize-winner/|title=AWM Essay Contest: Leena Shah|access-date=November 11, 2014}}</ref> is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at [[Harvard University]]<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=https://math.berkeley.edu/~mmwood/MWoodCV.pdf |title=Melanie Matchett Wood |website=math.berkeley.edu |access-date=2019-07-27}}</ref> who was the first woman to qualify for the U.S. [[International Mathematical Olympiad]] Team. She completed her PhD in 2009 at [[Princeton University]] (under [[Manjul Bhargava]]). Previously, she was Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics at [[UC Berkeley]], Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the [[University of Wisconsin]], and spent 2 years as Szegö Assistant Professor at [[Stanford University]].


She is a [[number theorist]]; more specifically, her research centers on arithmetic statistics, with excursions into related questions in arithmetic geometry and probability theory.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}
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Wood was born in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]], to Sherry Eggers and Archie Wood, both [[middle school]] teachers. Her father, a mathematics teacher, died of [[cancer]] when Wood was six weeks old.<ref>{{cite book |last=Olson |first=Steven |title=Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=2005 |isbn=0-618-56212-5 |page=18 }}</ref>


== Early life ==
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While a high school student at [[Park Tudor School]] in Indianapolis, Wood (then aged 16) became the first, and until 2004 the only female American to make the U.S. [[International Mathematical Olympiad]] Team, receiving silver medals in the 1998 and 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad.<ref name="maa">{{cite web|url=http://www.maa.org/news/melanie-wood-interview.html|title=Melanie Wood Interview|access-date=11 November 2014}}</ref> Wood was also a cheerleader and student newspaper editor at her school.<ref name="pop">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/education/10math.html| title=Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds| work=New York Times| access-date=2008-10-10 | first=Sara | last=Rimer | date=2008-10-10}}</ref>
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Wood was born in [[Indianapolis]], Indiana, to Sherry Eggers and Archie Wood, both middle school teachers. Her father, who taught mathematics, died of cancer when Wood was six weeks old.<ref>{{cite book |last=Olson |first=Steven |title=Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=2005 |isbn=0-618-56212-5 |page=18 }}</ref>


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While a high school student at [[Park Tudor School]] in Indianapolis, Wood (then aged 16) became the first female American to make the U.S. [[International Mathematical Olympiad]] Team, receiving silver medals in the 1998 and 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad.<ref name="maa">{{cite web|url=http://www.maa.org/news/melanie-wood-interview.html|title=Melanie Wood Interview|access-date=11 November 2014}}</ref> Wood was also a cheerleader and student newspaper editor at her school.<ref name="pop">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/education/10math.html| title=Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds| work=New York Times| access-date=2008-10-10 | first=Sara | last=Rimer | date=2008-10-10}}</ref>

== Awards ==
In 2002, she received the [[Alice T. Schafer Prize]] from the [[Association for Women in Mathematics]].
In 2002, she received the [[Alice T. Schafer Prize]] from the [[Association for Women in Mathematics]].


In 2003, Wood graduated from [[Duke University]] where she won a [[Gates Cambridge Scholarship]], [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright fellowship]], and a [[National Science Foundation]] graduate fellowship, in addition to becoming the first American woman and second woman overall to be named a [[Putnam Fellow]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/issues/010210/figure-where.html|title=Duke Magazine-Where Are They Now?-January/February 2010|access-date=11 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cogito.org/Articles/ArticleDetail.aspx?ContentID%3D15504 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20100707151220/http://www.cogito.org/Articles/ArticleDetail.aspx?ContentID=15504 |archive-date=2010-07-07 }}</ref><ref name="ams">https://www.ams.org/notices/200404/comm-morgan.pdf</ref> During the 2003–2004 year she studied at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]. She was also named the Deputy Leader of the U.S. team that finished second overall at the 2005 International Mathematical Olympiad.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2005 IMO US Team Results {{!}} Mathematical Association of America|url=https://www.maa.org/math-competitions/2005-imo-us-team-results|access-date=2020-10-27|website=www.maa.org}}</ref>
In 2003, Wood graduated from [[Duke University]] where she won a [[Gates Cambridge Scholarship]], [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright fellowship]] (declined to accept the Gates Cambridge Scholarship), and a [[National Science Foundation]] graduate fellowship, in addition to becoming the first American woman and second woman overall to be named a [[Putnam Fellow]] in 2002.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/issues/010210/figure-where.html|title=Duke Magazine-Where Are They Now?-January/February 2010|access-date=November 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cogito.org/Articles/ArticleDetail.aspx?ContentID%3D15504 |title=Cogito - Melanie Wood: The Making of a Mathematician |access-date=2014-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20100707151220/http://www.cogito.org/Articles/ArticleDetail.aspx?ContentID=15504 |archive-date=2010-07-07 }}</ref><ref name="ams">[https://www.ams.org/notices/200404/comm-morgan.pdf Profile], ams.org. Accessed November 15, 2022.</ref>


During the 2003–2004 school year, she studied at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]. She was also named the Deputy Leader of the U.S. team that finished second overall at the 2005 International Mathematical Olympiad.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2005 IMO US Team Results {{!}} Mathematical Association of America|url=https://www.maa.org/math-competitions/2005-imo-us-team-results|access-date=2020-10-27|website=maa.org}}</ref>
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In 2004, she won the [[Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student|Morgan Prize]] for work in two topics, Belyi-extending maps and P-orderings, making her the first woman to win this award.<ref name="maa" /><ref name="ams" />


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In 2004, she won the [[Morgan Prize]] for work in two topics, Belyi-extending maps and P-orderings, making her the first woman to win this award.<ref name="maa" /><ref name="ams" />
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In 2012, she became a fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]].<ref>[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-09-01.</ref>


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In 2012, she became a fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]].<ref>[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society]. Retrieved 2013-09-01.</ref>
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In 2017, she received an [[National Science Foundation CAREER Awards|NSF Career Award]].


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In 2017, she received an [[NSF CAREER Award]].
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In 2018, she received the [[AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory]] from the [[Association for Women in Mathematics]].<ref>{{cite web|title=AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory 2018|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-microsoft-research-prize/awm-microsoft-research-prize-2018/|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref>


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In 2018, she received the [[AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory]] from the [[Association for Women in Mathematics]].<ref>{{cite web|title=AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory 2018|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-microsoft-research-prize/awm-microsoft-research-prize-2018/|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|access-date=January 26, 2019}}</ref>
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In 2021, she received the NSF [[Alan T. Waterman Award]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=NSF recognizes a mathematician and a social scientist with the Alan T. Waterman Award|url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302673|access-date=2021-05-13|website=www.nsf.gov|language=English}}</ref>

From 2019 to 2021, Wood was an [[American Mathematical Society]] (AMS) Council member at large.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AMS Committees |url=http://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/mal-past.html |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=American Mathematical Society |language=en}}</ref>

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In 2021, she received the NSF [[Alan T. Waterman Award]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=NSF recognizes a mathematician and a social scientist with the Alan T. Waterman Award|url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302673|access-date=2021-05-13|website=nsf.gov|language=English}}</ref>

In 2022, she was awarded a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellowship]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/13/wood-macarthur-genius-grant/|title=Harvard Math Professor Melanie Matchett Wood Wins 'Genius Grant'|website=thecrimson.com}}</ref>


==Selected publications==
==Selected publications==
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*Wood, Melanie (2010). "On the probabilities of local behaviors in abelian field extensions". ''[[Compositio Mathematica|Compos. Math.]]'' 146, no. 1, 102–128. [https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2581243 MR 2581243]
*Wood, Melanie (2010). "On the probabilities of local behaviors in abelian field extensions". ''[[Compositio Mathematica|Compos. Math.]]'' 146, no. 1, 102–128. [https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2581243 MR 2581243]
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.girlsangle.org/page/bulletin-archive/GABv01n04.pdf An Interview with Melanie Matchett Wood] (''The Girls' Angle Bulletin'')
* [http://www.girlsangle.org/page/bulletin-archive/GABv01n04.pdf An Interview with Melanie Matchett Wood] (''The Girls' Angle Bulletin'', April 2008)
* [http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/mathstat/Events/wood_visit/MWoodInterview.pdf A Conversation with Melanie Wood] (''Math Horizons'' magazine)
* [http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/mathstat/Events/wood_visit/MWoodInterview.pdf A Conversation with Melanie Wood] (''Math Horizons'' magazine, September 2004)
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_6_21/ai_62277745 The Girl Who Loved Math] (''Discover'' magazine)
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_6_21/ai_62277745 The Girl Who Loved Math] (''Discover'' magazine)
* [https://archive.today/20121211084951/http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2003/05/melaniewood0503.html Melanie Wood: The Making of a Mathematician] (Duke University profile)
* [https://archive.today/20121211084951/http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2003/05/melaniewood0503.html Melanie Wood: The Making of a Mathematician] (Duke University profile)
* [https://math.berkeley.edu/~mmwood/] (homepage at the University of California, Berkeley)
* [https://math.berkeley.edu/~mmwood/ Melanie Wood] (homepage at the University of California, Berkeley)
*{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/education/10math.html |title=Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=October 10, 2008 |first=Sara |last=Rimer }}
*{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/education/10math.html |title=Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=October 10, 2008 |first=Sara |last=Rimer }}
*{{MathGenealogy |id=159320}}
*{{MathGenealogy |id=159320}}
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Melanie Wood
Wood in 2019
Born1981 (age 43–44)
Indianapolis, Indiana
NationalityAmerican
Alma materDuke University
Trinity College, Cambridge
Princeton University
AwardsMorgan Prize (2004)

NSF CAREER Award (2017)

AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsStanford University
University of Wisconsin
University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Thesis Moduli spaces for rings and ideals  (2009)
Doctoral advisorManjul Bhargava

Melanie Matchett Wood (born 1981)[1] is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University[2] who was the first woman to qualify for the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team. She completed her PhD in 2009 at Princeton University (under Manjul Bhargava). Previously, she was Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, and spent 2 years as Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University.

She is a number theorist; more specifically, her research centers on arithmetic statistics, with excursions into related questions in arithmetic geometry and probability theory.[citation needed]

Early life

Wood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Sherry Eggers and Archie Wood, both middle school teachers. Her father, who taught mathematics, died of cancer when Wood was six weeks old.[3]

While a high school student at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis, Wood (then aged 16) became the first female American to make the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team, receiving silver medals in the 1998 and 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad.[4] Wood was also a cheerleader and student newspaper editor at her school.[5]

Awards

In 2002, she received the Alice T. Schafer Prize from the Association for Women in Mathematics.

In 2003, Wood graduated from Duke University where she won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Fulbright fellowship (declined to accept the Gates Cambridge Scholarship), and a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship, in addition to becoming the first American woman and second woman overall to be named a Putnam Fellow in 2002.[2][6][7][8]

During the 2003–2004 school year, she studied at Cambridge University. She was also named the Deputy Leader of the U.S. team that finished second overall at the 2005 International Mathematical Olympiad.[9]

In 2004, she won the Morgan Prize for work in two topics, Belyi-extending maps and P-orderings, making her the first woman to win this award.[4][8]

In 2012, she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10]

In 2017, she received an NSF CAREER Award.

In 2018, she received the AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory from the Association for Women in Mathematics.[11]

From 2019 to 2021, Wood was an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large.[12]

In 2021, she received the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award.[13]

In 2022, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.[14]

Selected publications

  • Wood, Melanie (2019). "Nonabelian Cohen-Lenstra moments. With an appendix by the author and Philip Matchett Wood". Duke Math. J. 168, no. 3, 377–427. MR 3909900.
  • Vakil, Ravi; Wood, Melanie (2015). "Discriminants in the Grothendieck ring". Duke Math. J. 164, no. 6, 1139–1185. MR 3336842.
  • Wood, Melanie (2011). "Gauss composition over an arbitrary base". Advances in Mathematics. 226 (2): 1756–1771. arXiv:1007.5285. doi:10.1016/j.aim.2010.08.018. MR 2737799.
  • Wood, Melanie (2010). "On the probabilities of local behaviors in abelian field extensions". Compos. Math. 146, no. 1, 102–128. MR 2581243
  • Wood, Melanie (2003). "P-orderings: a metric viewpoint and the non-existence of simultaneous orderings". Journal of Number Theory. 99 (1): 36–56. doi:10.1016/S0022-314X(02)00056-2. MR 1957243.

References

  1. ^ "AWM Essay Contest: Leena Shah". Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Melanie Matchett Wood" (PDF). math.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  3. ^ Olson, Steven (2005). Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 18. ISBN 0-618-56212-5.
  4. ^ a b "Melanie Wood Interview". Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  5. ^ Rimer, Sara (2008-10-10). "Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
  6. ^ "Duke Magazine-Where Are They Now?-January/February 2010". Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  7. ^ "Cogito - Melanie Wood: The Making of a Mathematician". Archived from the original on 2010-07-07. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  8. ^ a b Profile, ams.org. Accessed November 15, 2022.
  9. ^ "2005 IMO US Team Results | Mathematical Association of America". maa.org. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  10. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
  11. ^ "AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory 2018". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved January 26, 2019.
  12. ^ "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  13. ^ "NSF recognizes a mathematician and a social scientist with the Alan T. Waterman Award". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  14. ^ "Harvard Math Professor Melanie Matchett Wood Wins 'Genius Grant'". thecrimson.com.
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