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
  1. Ann Trenk, Professor of Mathematics, Wellesley College, retrieved 2019-09-30
  2. Klavžar, Sandi (2006), "Review of "The distinguishing chromatic number"", Mathematical Reviews, MR 2200544
  3. Isaak, Garth T. (2005), "Review of Tolerance Graphs", Mathematical Reviews, MR 2051713
  4. Curriculum vitae (PDF), August 2018, retrieved 2019-09-30
  5. Ann Trenk at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Pinanski Prize winners, Wellesley College, retrieved 2019-09-30
  7. "Joseph Trenk", Paid obituaries, The New York Times, December 29, 2012 – via Legacy.com
  8. Brown, B. (September 2, 2019), "Wellesley runner proves mortal: 47 years, 83 marathons, 80,000 miles, then snap!", The Swellesley Report
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