Bridget Tenner
{{Short description|American mathematician}}
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Bridget Eileen Tenner is a professor of mathematics at DePaul University in Chicago. Her research focuses on permutation patterns, and has also included work in algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, Coxeter groups, and electoral geography.
Education and career
Tenner majored in mathematics at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude in 2002. She completed a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006.{{r|cv}} Her doctoral dissertation, The Combinatorics of Reduced Decompositions, was supervised by Richard P. Stanley;{{r|mg}} as a doctoral student she also visited Microsoft Research, and the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden.{{r|cv}}
She continued at MIT as a postdoctoral researcher until 2007, when she became an assistant professor at DePaul University. She was promoted to associate professor in 2011 and full professor in 2017.{{r|cv}}
Recognition
Tenner was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.{{r|fams}}
References
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External links
- [https://sites.google.com/view/bridget-tenner Home page]
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- [https://math.depaul.edu/~bridget/patterns.html Database of permutation pattern avoidance]
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