Sylvia Wiegand

Sylvia Margaret Wiegand (born March 8, 1945) is an American mathematician.

Early life and education Wiegand was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She is the daughter of mathematician Laurence Chisholm Young and through him the granddaughter of mathematicians Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young. Her family moved to Wisconsin in 1949, and she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1966 after three years of study. Her dissertation was titled Galois Theory of Essential Expansions of Modules and Vanishing Tensor Powers. In 1996, Sylvia and her husband, Roger Wiegand, established a fellowship for graduate student research at the university in honor of Sylvia's grandparents.

From 1997 until 2000, Wiegand was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Wiegand has been an editor for Communications in Algebra and the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics.

Awards and recognition Wiegand is featured in the book Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, published in 1998.

In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.