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AIM is pleased to announce that Melanie Matchett Wood
has been named an AIM Five-Year Fellow. She works
in Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry and will
receive her PhD from Princeton University in June, 2009.
Her thesis, ``Moduli spaces for rings and ideals''
was written under the direction of Manjul Bhargava.
Melanie's research
is at the interface of number theory and algebraic geometry,
constructing geometric moduli spaces whose points correspond
to number theoretic objects of interest.
Melanie
represented the United States in the International
Mathematics Olympiad team in 1998 and 1999. An undergraduate
at Duke University, she was a Putnam Fellow in 2002
and also won the Alice Shaeffer Prize that year. In 2003
she won the Morgan Prize for best original mathematical
research by an undergraduate.
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AIM is pleased to announce that Kirsten Graham Wickelgren
has been named a 2009 AIM Five-Year Fellow. Kirsten
will be receiving her PhD this year from Stanford University
under the direction of Gunnar Carlsson. Kirsten graduated
Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in 2003 and received a National
Science Foundation Fellowship to pursue her graduate studies.
Her research is at the interface of topology and arithmetic and
algebraic geometry. In her thesis, Kirsten examines cohomological
obstructions to the existence of sections of the map on etale
fundamental groups induced by the structure map of a curve
over a number field.
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