Wendy Myrvold

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Wendy Joanne Myrvold is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist known for her work on graph algorithms, planarity testing, and algorithms in enumerative combinatorics. She is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Victoria. [1]

Myrvold completed her Ph.D. in 1988 at the University of Waterloo. Her dissertation, The Ally and Adversary Reconstruction Problems, was supervised by Charles Colbourn. [2]

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References

  1. "Emeritus, adjunct, cross-listed, and sessionals", Faculty & Staff, University of Victoria Computer Science
  2. Wendy Myrvold at the Mathematics Genealogy Project