Melanie Wood

Harvard University

Melanie Matchett Wood is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University and a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her work spans number theory, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, additive combinatorics, and probability. Wood has been awarded an American Institute of Mathematics Five-Year Fellowship, a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, and the AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2021, Wood received the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award, the nation's highest honor for early-career scientists and engineers, and in 2022 Wood received a MacArthur Fellowship.

Melanie Wood
Scientific, Colloquia
PIMS Network Wide Colloquium: Melanie Wood
March 26, 2026
Online
It is well-known that for any finite group G, there exists a closed 3-manifold M with G as a quotient of the fundamental group of M. However, we can ask more detailed questions about the possible finite quotients of 3-manifold groups, e.g. for G and...