Alison Miller

Alison Miller received a B.A. degree in mathematics from Harvard in 2008. She has written important research papers in number theory and combinatorics and won Harvard's Hoopes Prize for her senior thesis.

In 2000 Alison Miller finished third in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee. In 2004 she became the first girl to win a gold medal for the United States team in the International Mathematical Olympiad. In 2005, 2006, and 2007 she received the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize from the Mathematical Association of America for particularly meritorious performance in the Putnam Competition by a woman. In 2007 she was a coach of the United States teams in the China Girls Math Olympiad competition. She is a co-winner of the 2008 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics given by the Association for Women in Mathematics. In 2008, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship and will study at Cambridge.

Bibliography

* Carl Erickson, Alison Miller and Aaron Pixton, "Orders at infinity of modular forms with Heegner divisors", "Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society" 135 (2007), pp. 3115–3126, doi|10.1090/S0002-9939-07-08846-6.

External links

* [http://mathforum.org/announce/congrats_alison.html Math Forum @ Drexel: Congratulations Alison!]
* [http://www.math.harvard.edu/putnam/ Harvard Mathematics Department Putnam Competition]
* [http://www.uwplatt.edu/maawisc/newsfall07.html MAA-Wisconsin Newsletter Fall 2007]
* [http://www.msri.org/specials/gmo Mathematical Sciences Research Institute: 2007 China Girls Math Olympiad]