PROVIDENCE – In recognition of her work in combinatorics and algebraic geometry, Brown University assistant professor of mathematics Melody Chan was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow in mid-February per a release by the Ivy League school.
Chan, who said in a statement she was “thrilled” by the fellowship, feels the opportunity “will enable me to pursue my scientific program while simultaneously working to increase the accessibility of mathematics and the mathematical community.”
Chan was one of 126 researchers from the United States and Canada to receive the honor in 2018. Sloan fellowships are awarded annually to “early-career scientists and scholars identified as the next generation of scientific leaders,” according to the release.
In her research, Chan develops and uses mathematical techniques to study the geometry of solutions to polynomial systems. Recent projects have made advances in the classical study of Brill-Noether theory and moduli spaces of curves.
She joined the Brown faculty in 2015 and this semester won a Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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