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Gethner has two doctorates. She completed her first, a PhD in mathematics from [[Ohio State University]], in 1992; her dissertation, ''Rational Period Functions For The Modular Group And Related Discrete Groups'', was supervised by L. Alayne Parson. She completed a second PhD in computer science from the [[University of British Columbia]] in 2002, with a dissertation ''Computational Aspects of Escher Tilings'' supervised by [[Nick Pippenger]] and [[David G. Kirkpatrick]].<ref name="auto">{{mathgenealogy|id=10613}}</ref> Gethner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at [[University of Colorado Denver]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://engineering.ucdenver.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory|title=UC Denver faculty and staff directory|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:59, 7 April 2019
Ellen Gethner is a US mathematician and computer scientist specializing in graph theory who won the Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize[1] in 2002 with co-authors Stan Wagon and Brian Wick for their paper A stroll through the Gaussian Primes.[2]
Career
Gethner has two doctorates. She completed her first, a PhD in mathematics from Ohio State University, in 1992; her dissertation, Rational Period Functions For The Modular Group And Related Discrete Groups, was supervised by L. Alayne Parson. She completed a second PhD in computer science from the University of British Columbia in 2002, with a dissertation Computational Aspects of Escher Tilings supervised by Nick Pippenger and David G. Kirkpatrick.[3] Gethner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Colorado Denver.[4]
References
- ^ "Chauvenet Prizes | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
- ^ Gethner, Ellen; Wagon, Stan; Wick, Brian (1998). "A Stroll Through the Gaussian Primes". The American Mathematical Monthly. 105 (4): 327–337. doi:10.2307/2589708. ISSN 0002-9890.
- ^ Ellen Gethner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "UC Denver faculty and staff directory".
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External links
- Ellen Gethner publications indexed by Google Scholar