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Senegalese mathematician
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
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 .
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[5] Her doctoral advisor was Jean Paul Dufour.
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Career
Wade became a postdoctoral researcher at the
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics , where she worked on conformal Dirac structures.
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[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.
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[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.
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[17] In 2017 Wade was named a fellow of the
African Academy of Sciences .
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Wade's accomplishments earned her recognition by
Mathematically Gifted & Black , where she was featured as a Black History Month 2020 Honoree.
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References
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"Aissa Wade" (PDF) . ICM 2022 . Archived from
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"Aissa Wade, Mathematician of the African Diaspora" . www.math.buffalo.edu . Retrieved 2018-05-25 .
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"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 .
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"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 .
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"NSF Award Search: Award#0715543 - International Conference on Geometry and Physics" . www.nsf.gov . Retrieved 2018-05-25 .
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"Global Best Practices Creating a pipeline for STEM @ AIMS" (PDF) . Worcester Polytechnic Institute . 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2018-05-25 .
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"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 .
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"University dons dominate new list of AAS fellows - University World News" . www.universityworldnews.com . Retrieved 2018-05-25 .
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