21 Facts About Cheryl Praeger

Cheryl Praeger has published widely and has advised 27 PhD students.

Cheryl Praeger is currently Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Western Australia.

Cheryl Praeger is best known for her works in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs.

Cheryl Praeger reluctantly showed her an engineering course description, but she felt it did not have enough mathematics.

Cheryl Praeger had her first opportunity at teaching regular classes at the University of Virginia during the semester she worked there.

Cheryl Praeger was later offered a short-term position at the University of Western Australia, which turned into a long term position, where she currently works today.

Cheryl Praeger's career has been largely spent in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Western Australia.

Cheryl Praeger has supervised over 30 graduate students and in 1997 she supervised the Honours research work of Akshay Venkatesh who went on to win a 2018 Fields Medal, commonly regarded as the highest prize in mathematics.

Cheryl Praeger is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, former president of the Australian Mathematical Society.

Cheryl Praeger was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in 1999 and promoted to Companion in 2021.

Cheryl Praeger has held memberships with the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia, Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, Australian Mathematics Trust, American Mathematical Society, and the London Mathematical Society.

Cheryl Praeger has been a member of the Curriculum Development Council of the Commonwealth Schools Commission, the Prime Ministers Science Advisory Council, WISET Advisory Committee to the Federal Minister for Science on participation of women in Science, Engineering, and Technology, UWA Academy of Young Mathematicians Lectures, the Western Australian School Mathematics Enrichment Course Tutor, and Data Analysis Australia Pty Ltd.

Cheryl Praeger has served on the Australian Federation of University Women and the Nedlands Primary School Council.

Cheryl Praeger is currently a member of the National Science and Technology Council that provides advice to the prime minister and the minister for science.

Between 2007 and 2014 Cheryl Praeger was a member of the executive committee of the International Mathematical Union and between 2013 and 2016 a vice president of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction.

Between 2014 and 2018 Cheryl Praeger was foreign secretary of the Australian Academy of Science.

Cheryl Praeger promotes the involvement of women in mathematics by encouraging girls in primary and secondary schools with lectures, workshops, conferences and through the Family Maths Program Australia, which she was key in implementing in local primary schools.

Cheryl Praeger is a past Patron of the Mathematical Association of Western Australia.

Cheryl Praeger published her first research paper in1970 while she was still an undergraduate.

Cheryl Praeger is known as a collaborator, with over 200 co-authors.

Cheryl Praeger's research is centred around the mathematics of symmetry, including key work in group theory, combinatorics, analysis of algorithms and complexity, discrete mathematics and geometry.