Sylvia Margaret Wiegand was born on March 8,1945 and is an American mathematician.
11 Facts About Sylvia Wiegand
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Sylvia Wiegand is the daughter of mathematician Laurence Chisholm Young and through him the granddaughter of mathematicians Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young.
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Sylvia Wiegand's family moved to Wisconsin in 1949, and she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1966 after three years of study.
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Sylvia Wiegand's dissertation was titled Galois Theory of Essential Expansions of Modules and Vanishing Tensor Powers.
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In 1987, she was named full professor at the University of Nebraska; at the time Wiegand was the only female professor in the department.
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In 1988, Sylvia Wiegand headed a search committee for two new jobs in the math department, for which two women were hired, although one stayed only a year and another left after four years.
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From 1997 until 2000, Sylvia Wiegand was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
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Sylvia Wiegand has been an editor for Communications in Algebra and the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics.
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Sylvia Wiegand was on the board of directors of the Canadian Mathematical Society from 1997 to 2000.
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Sylvia Wiegand was an American Mathematical Society Council member at large.
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Sylvia Wiegand is featured in the book Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, published in 1998.