Ann Trenk

Ann Trenk is Chair and Associate Professor of Mathematics at Wellesley College where she has been a member of the faculty since 1992. She received an A.B in Mathematics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University. During the 1991–1992 academic year, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College and has spent sabbaticals at the center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers University and the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University.

Professor Trenk's research specialty is Graph Theory and Partially Ordered Sets. Her research has been supported by grants from the American Association of University Women and by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Her book, Tolerance Graphs, coauthored with Professor Martin Golumbic, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004.

At Wellesley, Professor Trenk teaches most of the courses in the mathematics curriculum, including Calculus, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, Number Theory, Linear Algebra, and Abstract Algebra. She received Wellesley College's Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 1995. Before beginning graduate work in mathematics, she taught high school for several years at Middlesex School in Concord, MA.

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Profile last updated: 3/05