Aissa Wade
Aissa Wade | |
|---|---|
| Born | Dakar |
| Alma mater | University of Montpellier Cheikh Anta Diop University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Waterloo |
| Thesis | Normalization for Poisson structures |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean Paul Dufour |
Aissa Wade is a Professor of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University. She was the President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences centre in Senegal (from 2016 to 2018).
Early life and education
[edit]Wade was born in Dakar, Senegal.[1] She studied mathematics at Cheikh Anta Diop University and graduated in 1993.[2] She had to leave Senegal to earn a Ph.D. as there were no opportunities in Africa.[3] Wade earned her Ph.D. at the University of Montpellier in 1996.[2] Her thesis, "Normalisation formelle de structures de Poisson", considered symplectic geometry.[4][5] Her doctoral advisor was Jean Paul Dufour.[6][7]
Career
[edit]Wade became a postdoctoral researcher at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, where she worked on conformal Dirac structures.[2][8] She held visiting faculty positions at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, African University of Science and Technology and Paul Sabatier University.[9] Wade joined Pennsylvania State University and was appointed full professor in 2016.
She served as a managing editor of The African Diaspora Journal of Mathematics.[10] She is editor of Afrika Mathematika.[9] She is on the scientific committee of the NextEinstein forum, an initiative to connect science, society and policy in Africa.[11] As the President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Wade was the first woman to hold this role.[12][13] She has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to support the Senegal Workshop on Geometric Structures.[14][15] She has been involved with American Association for the Advancement of Science activities to enhance African STEM research, including the provision of evidence-based metrics, case studies and policy recommendations.[16][17] In 2017 Wade was named a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.[18][13]
Wade's accomplishments earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black, where she was featured as a Black History Month 2020 Honoree.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ "Aissa Wade" (PDF). ICM 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ a b c "Aissa Wade, Mathematician of the African Diaspora". www.math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ (www.dw.com), Deutsche Welle. "Transforming Africa with science and technology? | DW | 25.02.2016". DW.COM. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ Paulus, Gerdes (2007). African doctorates in mathematics : a catalogue. African Mathematical Union. Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa. Maputo, Mozambique: Research Centre for Mathematics, Culture and Education. ISBN 9781430318675. OCLC 123226819.
- ^ Wade, Aïssa (1997-03-01). "Normalisation formelle de structures de Poisson". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série I. 324 (5): 531–536. Bibcode:1997CRASM.324..531W. doi:10.1016/S0764-4442(99)80385-1. ISSN 0764-4442.
- ^ "Aïssa Wade - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.ams.org. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ Dufour, Jean-Paul; Wade, Aissa (2008). "On the local structure of Dirac manifolds". Compositio Mathematica. 144 (3): 774–786. arXiv:math/0405257. doi:10.1112/S0010437X07003272. ISSN 0010-437X. S2CID 119153423.
- ^ Wade, Aissa. "Conformal Dirac Structures" (PDF). IAEA. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ a b Allemand, Luc. "Aissa Wade - EN". YASE Conference. Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ "| Mathematical Research Publishers". 2021-04-15. Archived from the original on 2021-04-15. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
- ^ "Aissa Wade". Next Einstein Forum. 2015-12-02. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ groupe, G. I. D. (2016-03-16), 1er Forum GID-FastDev - Mme Aissa Wade, retrieved 2018-05-25
- ^ a b "AAS Fellows in Senegal". African Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1208297 - Senegal Workshop on Geometric Structures and Control Theory". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0715543 - International Conference on Geometry and Physics". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ "Global Best Practices Creating a pipeline for STEM @ AIMS" (PDF). Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ "Session: Enhancing African STEM Research and Capacity with International Collaboration (2016 AAAS Annual Meeting (February 11-15, 2016))". aaas.confex.com. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ "University dons dominate new list of AAS fellows - University World News". www.universityworldnews.com. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ "Aissa Wade". Mathematically Gifted & Black.
