Melanie Matchett Wood

Department of Mathematics
Fine Hall, Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544-1000, USA

I am a graduate student in mathematics at Princeton University.

My advisor is Manjul Bhargava and my research is in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry.

I will complete my PhD in 2009, and starting in Fall 2009 I will be a Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University and an American Institute of Mathematics Five-Year Fellow.

email (fill in my first name):
firstname.wood at math dot princeton dot edu

My CV.


My favorite part of mathematics is talking to other people about it, so if you are interested in talking to me either about my work, or about work that I might be interested in, please get in touch!

Publications


Projects and Organizations that I am involved in

MathCounts (I am on the Board of Directors.)

Princeton University McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning (I am a Graduate Fellow, which means I help teaching assistants improve their teaching through workshops and observations with feedback.)

Girls Math Olympiad, in China (Zuming Feng and I wrote a grant to start US participation in this competition.)

Research Experience for Undergraduates, Duluth (I was an advisor in 2004 and visit every summer.)

The Noetherian Ring at Princeton (Lillian Pierce and I organize activities for women in the Princeton math department.)


Notes from Math 217: Honors Linear Algebra, March 7, 2008
My husband, Philip Matchett Wood, is also a mathematician.