Ann Natalie Trenk is an American mathematician interested in graph theory and the theory of partially ordered sets, [1] and known for her research on proper distinguishing colorings of graphs [2] and on tolerance graphs. [3] She is the Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Mathematics at Wellesley College. [1]
Trenk graduated from Harvard University in 1985 and became a high school mathematics teacher. She began graduate study at Johns Hopkins University in 1987, earned a master of science in education in 1989, and completed a Ph.D. in 1991. [4] Her dissertation, Generalized Perfect Graphs, was supervised by Ed Scheinerman. [4] [5]
After postdoctoral research at Dartmouth College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she joined the Wellesley faculty in 1992. At Wellesley, she won the Pinanski Teaching Prize in 1995, [6] became a full professor in 2005, and served as department chair from 2014 to 2016. [4]
With Martin Charles Golumbic, Trenk is the author of the book Tolerance Graphs (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 89, Cambridge University Press, 2004). [3]
Trenk is the daughter of New York City attorney Joseph Trenk, [7] and is married to Babson College mathematics Professor Richard Cleary. [8] [9]
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