Sue Whitesides Explained

Sue Whitesides
Thesis Title:Collineations of Projective Planes of Order 10
Thesis Url:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0097316579901031
Thesis Year:1975
Doctoral Advisor:Richard Bruck
Doctoral Students:Vida Dujmović
Discipline:Mathematics, computer science
Sub Discipline:Computational geometry, graph drawing
Workplaces:University of Victoria
McGill University
Dartmouth College

Sue Hays Whitesides is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, a professor emeritus of computer science and the chair of the computer science department at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.[1] [2] Her research specializations include computational geometry and graph drawing.

Education and career

Whitesides received her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, under the supervision of Richard Bruck. Before joining the University of Victoria faculty, she taught at Dartmouth College and McGill University; at McGill, she was director of the School of Computer Science from 2005 to 2008.[3] [4]

Service

Whitesides was the program chair for the 1998 International Symposium on Graph Drawing[5] and program co-chair for the 2012 Symposium on Computational Geometry.[6]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.csc.uvic.ca/Faculty_Staff/Profiles/profile_find.htm?name_of_profile=Sue_Whitesides Faculty profile
  2. Web site: Affiliated faculty - University of Victoria. www.uvic.ca. en-CA. 2018-09-22.
  3. https://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/38/02/computer/ Computer science summer camp: High school students spend week programming
  4. http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=b68d9aa5-a82b-4fc0-8801-095c2e6f61f9 Morgan Stanley boosts info-tech sector
  5. http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~gd98/ Graph Drawing 1998 web site
  6. http://socg2012.web.unc.edu/ SoCG 2012 web site