Carol Wood
Carol Saunders Wood | |
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Wood in 2017 | |
Born | (1945-02-09) February 9, 1945 (age 79) Pennington Gap, Virginia |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Known for | Differentially Closed Fields |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Doctoral advisor | Abraham Robinson |
Carol Saunders Wood (born February 9, 1945, in Pennington Gap, Virginia)[1] is a retired American mathematician, the Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics, Emerita, at Wesleyan University.[2] Her research concerns mathematical logic and model-theoretic algebra,[3] and in particular the theory of differentially closed fields.[4]
Wood graduated in 1966 from Randolph-Macon Woman's College, a small United Methodist college in Lynchburg, Virginia.[3] She earned her doctorate in 1971 from Yale University with a dissertation on forcing supervised by Abraham Robinson.[5] At Wesleyan, she served three times as department chair.[1] She was an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large from 1987 to 1989.[6] She was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 1991 to 1993,[3] and served on the board of trustees of the American Mathematical Society from 2002 to 2007.[1] She has served on the AMS Committee on Women in Mathematics since it was formed in 2012 and was chair from 2012 to 2015.[7] She supervised 4 doctoral students at Wesleyan.[5]
Wood was the 1998 commencement speaker for mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.[8] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[9] In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[10]
References
- ^ a b c Candidate biography, Trustee election, American Mathematical Society, Notices of the AMS 53 (8): 930, September 2006.
- ^ Mathematics and Computer Science faculty listing, Wesleyan, retrieved January 2, 2015.
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved January 2, 2015.
- ^ Marcja, Annalisa; Toffalori, Carlo (2003), A Guide to Classical and Modern Model Theory, Trends in Logic, vol. 19, Springer, p. 115, ISBN 9781402013317.
- ^ a b Carol Saunders Wood at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
- ^ Committee on Women in Mathematics (CoWIM) Past Members, retrieved March 22, 2020
- ^ Commencement Speakers Past, Berkeley mathematics, retrieved January 2, 2015.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved January 2, 2015.
- ^ "2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows". awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
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- Mary W. Gray (1971–1973)
- Alice T. Schafer (1973–1975)
- Lenore Blum (1975–1979)
- Judith Roitman (1979–1981)
- Bhama Srinivasan (1981–1983)
- Linda Preiss Rothschild (1983–1985)
- Linda Keen (1985–1987)
- Rhonda Hughes (1987–1989)
- Jill P. Mesirov (1989–1991)
- Carol S. Wood (1991–1993)
- Cora Sadosky (1993–1995)
- Chuu-Lian Terng (1995–1997)
- Sylvia M. Wiegand (1997–1999)
- Jean E. Taylor (1999–2001)
- Suzanne Lenhart (2001–2003)
- Carolyn S. Gordon (2003–2005)
- Barbara Keyfitz (2005–2007)
- Cathy Kessel (2007–2009)
- Georgia Benkart (2009–2011)
- Jill Pipher (2011–2013)
- Ruth Charney (2013–2015)
- Kristin Lauter (2015–2017)
- Ami Radunskaya (2017–2019)
- Ruth Haas (2019–2021)
- Kathryn Leonard (2021–2023)
- Talitha Washington (2023–2025)