Ann Trenk
Ann Natalie Trenk is an American mathematician interested in graph theory and the theory of partially ordered sets,[1] and known for her research on proper distinguishing colorings of graphs[2] and on tolerance graphs.[3] She is a professor of mathematics at Wellesley College.[1]
Education and career
Trenk graduated from Harvard University in 1985 and became a high school mathematics teacher. She began graduate study at Johns Hopkins University in 1987, earned a master of science in education in 1989, and completed a Ph.D. in 1991.[4] Her dissertation, Generalized Perfect Graphs, was supervised by Ed Scheinerman.[4][5]
After postdoctoral research at Dartmouth College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she joined the Wellesley faculty in 1992. At Wellesley, she won the Pinanski Teaching Prize in 1995,[6] became a full professor in 2005, and served as department chair from 2014 to 2016.[4]
Book
With Martin Charles Golumbic, Trenk is the author of the book Tolerance Graphs (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 89, Cambridge University Press, 2004).[3]
Family
Trenk is the daughter of New York City attorney Joseph Trenk,[7] and is married to fellow Wellesley mathematician Richard Cleary.[8]
References
- ^ a b Ann Trenk, Professor of Mathematics, Wellesley College, retrieved 2019-09-30
- ^ Klavžar, Sandi (2006), "Review of "The distinguishing chromatic number"", Mathematical Reviews, MR 2200544
- ^ a b Isaak, Garth T. (2005), "Review of Tolerance Graphs", Mathematical Reviews, MR 2051713
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), August 2018, retrieved 2019-09-30
- ^ Ann Trenk at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Pinanski Prize winners, Wellesley College, retrieved 2019-09-30
- ^ "Joseph Trenk", Paid obituaries, The New York Times, December 29, 2012 – via Legacy.com
- ^ Brown, B. (September 2, 2019), "Wellesley runner proves mortal: 47 years, 83 marathons, 80,000 miles, then snap!", The Wellesley Report
