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Duke Mathematician Jiuya Wang Wins Dissertation Prize

Jiuya Wang, Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2019 Dissertation Prize by the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Jiuya Wang, Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2019 Dissertation Prize by the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Duke Today Staff

The Association for Women in Mathematics has awarded assistant research professor of mathematics the 2019 AWM Dissertation Prize, an annual award for the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertations presented by female mathematical scientists.

Wang received her Ph.D. in 2018 under mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood at the University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison.

Wang works in arithmetic statistics, a branch of number theory. In her Ph.D. thesis she proved Malle鈥檚 conjecture for infinitely many non-abelian Galois groups. 

Colleagues who wrote letters supporting her nomination describe her work as 鈥渂eautiful,鈥 鈥渋mpressive鈥 and 鈥渁 serious analytic accomplishment.鈥 In addition, they expect the methods she developed will have many applications to the field of arithmetic statistics.

Wang is currently a Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor and a Foerster-Bernstein Fellow at Duke. She will receive her prize at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland, January 2019.