Carol S. Wood

Carol Saunders Wood (born February 9, 1945, in Pennington Gap, Virginia)[1] is a retired American mathematician, the Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics, Emerita, at Wesleyan University.[2] Her research concerned mathematical logic and model-theoretic algebra,[3] and in particular the theory of differentially closed fields.[4]

Wood graduated in 1966 from Randolph-Macon Woman's College, a small United Methodist college in Lynchburg, Virginia.[3] She earned her doctorate in 1971 from Yale University with a dissertation on forcing supervised by Abraham Robinson.[5] At Wesleyan, she served three times as department chair.[1] She was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 1991 to 1993,[3] and served on the board of trustees of the American Mathematical Society from 2002 to 2007.[1] She has served on the AMS Committee on Women in Mathematics since it was formed in 2012 and was chair from 2012 to 2015.[6] She supervised 4 doctoral students at Wesleyan.[5]

Wood was the 1998 commencement speaker for mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.[7] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Candidate biography, Trustee election, American Mathematical Society, Notices of the AMS 53 (8): 930, September 2006.
  2. Mathematics and Computer Science faculty listing, Wesleyan, retrieved January 2, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae, retrieved January 2, 2015.
  4. Marcja, Annalisa; Toffalori, Carlo (2003), A Guide to Classical and Modern Model Theory, Trends in Logic 19, Springer, p. 115, ISBN 9781402013317.
  5. 1 2 Carol Saunders Wood at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Committees of the AMS, retrieved June 17, 2015
  7. Commencement Speakers Past, Berkeley mathematics, retrieved January 2, 2015.
  8. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved January 2, 2015.
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