2021 Waterman Award

2021年沃特曼奖

• 批准号: 2140043
• 负责人: Melanie Wood
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2140043&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2021; Waterman; Award

The National Science Foundation (NSF) named Melanie Matchett Wood, Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University, as the 2021 Alan T. Waterman Award recipient: For fundamental contributions at the interface of number theory, algebraic geometry, topology, and probability including establishing deep results in the subject of random matrices, advancing the field by proving, and occasionally disproving, conjectures and widely believed statements. Some of Dr. Wood’s most cited work, on random matrices, random graphs, and random sandpiles, will have downstream applications in both physics and statistics. One focus of Dr. Wood’s work has been to develop a nonabelian analogue of the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, in which class groups are replaced by Galois groups of nonabelian extensions of a varying number field. Dr. Wood also developed a remarkable understanding of quadratic forms with arbitrarily "strange" coefficients. Dr. Wood is one of the world’s leaders in her field of mathematics and is at the top of her generation in mathematics overall.Dr. Wood has taken on a leadership role in her profession, promoting greater participation by girls and women in mathematics, for example through her work with high school programs, and communicating the ubiquity of mathematics to a lay audience. At the age of 16, Wood was the first female member of the U.S. international Math Olympiad team and led the first U.S. team to participate in the international Girls’ Math Olympiad contest for high school students. She has embraced her unique position as a leader in mathematics to inspire others and to be a model for the next generation. Dr. Wood has won numerous prizes and awards, including being the first woman to win the Morgan Prize for the top undergraduate mathematics research in North America and being the first American woman to be named a Putnam Fellow. She received the AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory. In addition, she was named a Clay Mathematics Institute Liftoff Fellow, an Inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, a Sloan Research Fellow, and a recipient of a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.Dr. Wood received her BS degree from Duke University in 2003 and her PhD from Princeton University in 2009. She was an AIM Fellow from 2009-2014 and named as a Clay Liftoff Fellow in 2009, holding these at Stanford University, and in 2011 joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin as an Assistant Professor. She moved to the University of California at Berkeley as a Professor in 2019 and since May of 2020 has been a Professor at Harvard University.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 任命哈佛大学数学教授梅兰妮·马切特·伍德 (Melanie Matchett Wood) 为 2021 年艾伦·T·沃特曼奖获得者：表彰其在数论、代数几何、拓扑和概率领域的基础性贡献，包括建立深层结果在随机矩阵主题中，通过证明（有时反驳）伍德博士关于随机矩阵、随机图和被广泛引用的一些猜想和陈述来推进该领域的发展。 Wood 博士的工作重点之一是开发 Cohen-Lenstra 启发式的非阿贝尔类比，其中类群被不同数量的非阿贝尔扩展的伽罗瓦群所取代。伍德博士还对具有任意“奇怪”系数的二次形式有着非凡的理解。伍德博士是她所在数学领域的世界领先者之一，并且处于她这一代数学的顶尖地位。总体而言，伍德博士在她的职业中发挥了领导作用，通过她在高中项目中的工作，促进女孩和妇女更多地参与数学，并向普通观众传播数学的普遍性。 16、伍德是美国国际数学奥林匹克代表队的第一位女队员，并率领第一支美国代表队参加国际高中生数学奥林匹克竞赛。她凭借自己作为数学领军人物的独特地位来激励人们。伍德博士赢得了无数奖项和奖项，包括成为北美顶尖本科生数学研究摩根奖的第一位女性，以及第一位被任命为数学家的美国女性。她获得了 AWM-Microsoft 代数和数论研究奖，此外，她还被任命为克莱数学研究所 Liftoff 研究员、美国数学会首任研究员、斯隆研究员和帕卡德奖获得者。获得科学与工程奖学金。Wood 博士于 2003 年在杜克大学获得学士学位，并于 2009 年在普林斯顿大学获得博士学位。她于 2009 年至 2014 年期间担任 AIM 研究员，并于 2009 年被任命为 Clay Liftoff 研究员，并在斯坦福大学获得这些学位大学，并于 2011 年加入威斯康星大学担任助理教授，并于 2019 年 5 月起担任加州大学伯克利分校教授。 2020 年的哈佛大学教授。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Random integral matrices: universality of surjectivity and the cokernel

随机积分矩阵：满射性和 cokernel 的普遍性

• DOI: 10.1007/s00222-021-01082-w
• 发表时间: 2022-04
• 期刊: Inventiones mathematicae
• 影响因子: 3.1
• 作者: Nguyen, Hoi H.;Wood, Melanie Matchett
• 通讯作者: Wood, Melanie Matchett