Ortrud R. Oellermann is a South African mathematician specializing in graph theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Winnipeg.
Ortrud Oellermann | |
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| Born | Vryheid |
| Awards | Silver British Association Medal Meiring Naude Medal, Hall Medal |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Natal, Western Michigan University |
| Thesis | Generalized Connectivity in Graphs |
| Doctoral advisor | Gary Chartrand |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Sub-discipline | graph theory |
| Institutions | University of Durban-Westville, Western Michigan University, University of Natal, Brandon University, University of Winnipeg |
| Notable works | Applied and Algorithmic Graph Theory |
Education and career
editOellermann was born in Vryheid.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree, cum laude honours, and a master's degree at the University of Natal in 1981, 1982, and 1983 respectively,[2] as a student of Henda Swart.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in 1986 at Western Michigan University. Her dissertation was Generalized Connectivity in Graphs and was supervised by Gary Chartrand.[2][4]
Oellermann taught at the University of Durban-Westville, Western Michigan University, University of Natal, and Brandon University, before moving to Winnipeg in 1996. At Winnipeg, she was co-chair of mathematics and statistics for 2011–2013.[2]
Contributions
editWith Gary Chartrand, Oellermann is the author of the book Applied and Algorithmic Graph Theory (McGraw Hill, 1993).[AA]
She is also the author of well-cited research publications on metric dimension of graphs[MD], on distance-based notions of convex hulls in graphs,[CS] and on highly irregular graphs in which every vertex has a neighborhood in which all degrees are distinct.[IG] The phrase "highly irregular" was a catchphrase of her co-author Yousef Alavi; because of this, Ronald Graham suggested that there should be a concept of highly irregular graphs, by analogy to the regular graphs, and Oellermann came up with the definition of these graphs.[5]
Recognition
editIn 1991, Oellermann was the winner of the annual Silver British Association Medal of the Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of Science.[6] She won the Meiring Naude Medal of the Royal Society of South Africa in 1994.[7] She was also one of three winners of the Hall Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications in 1994, the first year the medal was awarded.[8]
Selected publications
editBook
edit| AA. | Chartrand, Gary; Oellermann, Ortrud R. (1993), Applied and Algorithmic Graph Theory, International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics, New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., ISBN 0-07-557101-3, MR 1211413
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Research articles
edit| IG. | Alavi, Yousef; Chartrand, Gary; Chung, F. R. K.; Erdős, Paul; Graham, R. L.; Oellermann, Ortrud R. (1987), "Highly irregular graphs", Journal of Graph Theory, 11 (2): 235–249, doi:10.1002/jgt.3190110214, MR 0889356
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| MD. | Chartrand, Gary; Eroh, Linda; Johnson, Mark A.; Oellermann, Ortrud R. (2000), "Resolvability in graphs and the metric dimension of a graph" (PDF), Discrete Applied Mathematics, 105 (1–3): 99–113, doi:10.1016/S0166-218X(00)00198-0, MR 1780464
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| CS. | Cáceres, José; Márquez, Alberto; Oellermann, Ortrud R.; Luz Puertas, María (2005), "Rebuilding convex sets in graphs", Discrete Mathematics, 297 (1–3): 26–37, doi:10.1016/j.disc.2005.03.020, hdl:11441/34391, MR 2159429
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References
edit- ^ Author biography from Chartrand, Gary; Erdős, Paul; Oellermann, Ortrud R. (1988), "How to define an irregular graph", The College Mathematics Journal, 19 (1): 36–42, doi:10.2307/2686701, JSTOR 2686701, MR 0931654
- ^ a b c Education, Professional Service, and Administration (PDF), retrieved 2018-02-11
- ^ Group Democracy and Governance, Human Sciences Research Council, Department of Arts, Culture, Science, and Technology, South Africa (2000), Women Marching Into the 21st Century: Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokodo, Sherano Printers, p. 192, ISBN 9780796919663
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Ortrud Oellermann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Chartrand, Gary (2016), "Highly irregular", in Gera, Ralucca; Hedetniemi, Stephen; Larson, Craig (eds.), Graph Theory: Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems – 1, Problem Books in Mathematics, Cham: Springer, pp. 1–16, MR 3617180. See in particular p. 9.
- ^ List of award winners: British Association Medal (Silver), Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2018-02-11
- ^ Medal Winners (PDF), Royal Society of South Africa, retrieved 2018-02-11
- ^ ICA Medals, Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, retrieved 2018-02-11