Maria Chudnovsky
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| Residence |  U.S. |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Seymour |
Maria Chudnovsky is a professor in the departments of mathematics and of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University. She grew up in Russia and Israel, studying at the Technion,[1] and received her Ph.D. in 2003 from Princeton University under the supervision of Paul Seymour.[2] She moved to Columbia after being a Clay Mathematics Institute research fellow and assistant professor at Princeton.[1] In 2004 was named one of the “Brilliant 10” by Popular Science magazine.[3] Among her contributions to graph theory is developing a proof to the strong perfect graph theorem characterizing perfect graphs as being exactly the graphs with no odd induced cycles or their complements.[4][5] In 2006 an undergraduate studying with Chudnovsky, Alexandra Ovetsky, won the Alice T. Schafer Prize recognizing the best female undergraduate mathematician in the U.S.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Interview with Research Fellow Maria Chudnovsky, Clay Mathematics Institute, 2005, http://www.claymath.org/library/annual_report/ar2005/05report_chud.pdf.
- ^ Maria Chudnovsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Minkel, J. R. (June 29, 2004), "Maria Chudnovsky", Popular Science, http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-06/maria-chudnovsky.
- ^ Chudnovsky, Maria; Robertson, Neil; Seymour, Paul; Thomas, Robin (2006), "The strong perfect graph theorem", Annals of Mathematics 164: 51–229, http://annals.math.princeton.edu/issues/2006/July2006/ChudnovskyRobertsonSeymourThomas.pdf.
- ^ Mackenzie, Dana (5 July 2002), "Mathematics: Graph Theory Uncovers the Roots of Perfection", Science 297 (5578): 38, doi:.
- ^ Karagu, Joy (February 14, 2006), "Ovetsky '06 wins national math prize", Daily Princetonian, http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/02/14/news/14452.shtml.
