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Sue Whitesides
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Sue Whitesides at the Workshop on Theory and Practice of Graph Drawing in 2012
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| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD) |
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| Institutions | University of Victoria Dartmouth College |
| Thesis | Collineations of Projective Planes of Order 10 (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Bruck |
| Doctoral students | Vida Dujmović |
Sue Hays Whitesides is a brilliant Canadian scientist who loves math and computers! She is a professor emeritus (which means she's retired but still honored) of computer science at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She even used to be the head of the computer science department there. Her special skills are in areas called computational geometry and graph drawing. These are like drawing pictures and solving puzzles using math and computers!
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Sue's Journey in Science
Early Education and Degrees
Sue Whitesides earned her highest degree, a PhD in math, in 1975. She got this important degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her teacher and guide during her PhD studies was a smart person named Richard Bruck.
Teaching and Leadership Roles
Before she joined the University of Victoria, Sue taught at other famous universities. She shared her knowledge at Dartmouth College and McGill University. At McGill, she was even the director of the School of Computer Science for a few years, from 2005 to 2008. This means she was in charge of the whole computer science school!
Helping the Science Community
Leading Important Conferences
Sue Whitesides has also helped organize big events for other scientists. She was the main person in charge of the program for the 1998 International Symposium on Graph Drawing. This is a special meeting where experts talk about how to draw graphs using computers. She also helped lead the program for the 2012 Symposium on Computational Geometry, another big meeting for scientists who work with shapes and computers.
External Links
- Sue Whitesides at DBLP Bibliography ServerLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
