# Giang Nguyen > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Giang_Nguyen > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Giang_Nguyen.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giang_Nguyen > Source revision: 1343831672 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Vietnamese-Australian chess player (born 1985)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox chess player |image = Giang Nguyen 2013.jpg |name = Giang Nguyen |caption = Giang Nguyen at the 2013 Labour Day Weekender in [Adelaide](/source/Adelaide) |country = {{VIE}} (until 2007)
{{AUS}} (since 2007) |birth_date = {{birth date and age|2 October 1985}} |birth_place =[Hanoi](/source/Hanoi), Vietnam |title =[Woman FIDE Master](/source/Woman_FIDE_Master) (2012) |rating = |peakrating = 2186 (September 2014) |FideID = 12400980 }} :''This is a [Vietnamese name](/source/Vietnamese_name); The [family name](/source/Vietnamese_name) is [Nguyen](/source/Nguyen).'' '''Giang Thu Nguyen''' (born ''Nguyễn Thu Giang'' on 2 October 1985 in [Hanoi](/source/Hanoi)) is a [Vietnamese](/source/Vietnamese_people)-[Australian](/source/Australians) [chess player](/source/chess_player) and mathematician. She is a senior lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the [University of Adelaide](/source/University_of_Adelaide). In chess, she is a [Woman FIDE Master](/source/Woman_FIDE_Master) (WFM),[http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=12400980 Nguyen, Thu Giang] FIDE Player Profile, [http://www.fide.com www.fide.com] and has represented Australia in many Chess Olympiads. She has won the South Australian women's championship four times, and the South Australian (open) championship once. == Chess == Nguyen began playing chess at the age of nine. She won the gold medal in Vietnamese Junior Girls Under 13 Championship in 1998, and the silver medal in Vietnamese Junior Girls Under 15 Championship in 1999. Nguyen first represented Vietnam in the World Rapid Girls Under 14 Championship (Disneyland, Paris) in 1998. Representing Vietnam, she won a gold medal at the Asian Girls Under 14 Championship in 1999, a silver medal at the 2nd Children of Asia International Children Sports Games in 2000, and a silver medal in the ASEAN Girls Under 16 Championship in 2000. In 2001, Nguyen moved to [Adelaide](/source/Adelaide), Australia. She came equal third in the [Australian Junior Championship](/source/Australian_Chess_Championship) in [Sydney](/source/Sydney) in 2002. Since 2008, Nguyen has been playing chess under the Australian flag. She has represented Australia in eight [Chess Olympiad](/source/Chess_Olympiad)s: in [2008](/source/38th_Chess_Olympiad), [2010](/source/39th_Chess_Olympiad), [2012](/source/40th_Chess_Olympiad), [2014](/source/41st_Chess_Olympiad), [2016](/source/42nd_Chess_Olympiad), [2018](/source/43rd_Chess_Olympiad), [2022](/source/44th_Chess_Olympiad), and [2024](/source/45th_Chess_Olympiad).[http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/9jt7173g.html Nguyen Thu Giang] Chess Olympiad statistics, [http://www.olimpbase.org www.olimpbase.org]{{cite web|url=https://www.chess.com/blog/JackRodgersChess/greetings-from-hungary-introducing-australias-open-olympiad-team|title=Greetings From Hungary: Introducing Australia's Olympiad Team|first=Jack|last=Rodgers|date=9 September 2024|publisher=Chess.com|access-date=2024-11-16}} In 2012, she scored 6/9 and was awarded the [Woman FIDE Master](/source/Woman_FIDE_Master) (WFM) title for her result. She won the (open) South Australian championship in 2014, and the women's championship in 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2008.{{Cite web |title=Honour Boards {{!}} South Australian Chess Association |url=https://sachess.org.au/honour-boards/ |access-date=2024-11-16}} ==Mathematics== Nguyen completed her PhD in mathematics from the [University of South Australia](/source/University_of_South_Australia) (UniSA) in 2009 at the age of 23. This made her the youngest PhD graduate of UniSA and the second youngest from a South Australian university.[http://w3.unisa.edu.au/unisanews/2009/August/mainstory.asp Our young Dr of Maths] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611135215/http://w3.unisa.edu.au/unisanews/2009/August/mainstory.asp |date=11 June 2020 }} Alexandra Brown, UniSANews Her dissertation, ''Hamiltonian Cycle Problem, Markov Decision Processes and Graph Spectra'', was jointly supervised by [Jerzy A. Filar](/source/Jerzy_Andrzej_Filar) and Vlad Ejov.{{Cite web |title=Giang Nguyen – The Mathematics Genealogy Project |url=https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=135766 |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=mathgenealogy.org}} border|thumb|369x369px|Giang Nguyen at the 38th Chess Olympiad in 2008 in Dresden Nguyen is a senior lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide, and a 2019 South Australian Tall Poppy Science Award recipient. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{Official website}} *{{MathGenealogy|id=135766}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Nguyen, Giang}} Category:1985 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Hanoi Category:Sportspeople of Vietnamese descent Category:Australian female chess players Category:21st-century Australian chess players Category:21st-century Vietnamese chess players Category:Chess Olympiad competitors Category:Chess Woman FIDE Masters Category:Vietnamese emigrants to Australia Category:Australian mathematicians Category:21st-century Vietnamese mathematicians Category:21st-century women mathematicians Category:Academic staff of the University of Adelaide Category:University of South Australia alumni --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Giang Nguyen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giang_Nguyen) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giang_Nguyen?action=history)). 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