Jennifer Quinn
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Jennifer Quinn

American mathematician

Jennifer J. Quinn is an American mathematician specializing in combinatorics who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Tacoma. She sits on the board of governors of the Mathematical Association of America, and served as its president for the years 2021 and 2022.2

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About

From 2004 to 2008, she was co-editor of Math Horizons.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedWilliams College3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Illinois Chicago3

Quinn went to Williams College as an undergraduate, graduating in 1985. She earned a master's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1987, and completed her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1993. Her dissertation, Colorings and Cycle Packings in Graphs and Digraphs, was supervised by Richard A. Brualdi.

She taught at Occidental College until 2005, when she gave up her position as full professor and department chair to move with her husband, biologist Mark Martin, to Washington. She became a part-time lecturer, and executive director of the Association for Women in Mathematics, until earning a faculty position at Tacoma in 2007.

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Career

Occupation: mathematician, university teacher.6

Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States7

Awards

  • 2022Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics8