Melanie Wood

Melanie Wood
Melanie Wood

Melanie Wood in 2007
(photo from MFO)
Born 1981 (age 29–30)
Indianapolis, Indiana
Nationality  United States
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Stanford University
University of Wisconsin
Alma mater Duke University
Princeton University
Doctoral advisor Manjul Bhargava
Notable awards Morgan Prize (2004)

Melanie Matchett Wood (born 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana[1]) is an American mathematician who became the first female American to make the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team. She completed her Ph.D. in 2009 at Princeton University (under Manjul Bhargava) and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, after spending 2 years as Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University.

While a high school student at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis, Melanie (then aged 16) became the first, and until 2004 the only female American to make the U.S. International Math Olympiad Team, receiving silver medals in the 1998 and 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad.[2] At her school, in addition to being a math whiz, Melanie was a cheerleader and student newspaper editor.[3]

Melanie graduated from Duke University where she won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Fulbright fellowship, and a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship in 2003, in addition to becoming the first American woman and second woman overall to be named a Putnam Fellow in 2002.[4][5][6] During the 2003–2004 year she studied at Cambridge University.

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.[2][6] Her paper on the second topic was published in the Journal of Number Theory.

She was also named the Deputy Leader of the U.S. team that finished second overall at the 2005 International Mathematical Olympiad.

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