Elizabeth Lee Wilmer is an American mathematician known for her work on Markov chain mixing times.
She is a professor, and former department head, of mathematics at Oberlin College.
[1] As a 16-year-old high school student at Stuyvesant High School and captain of the school mathematics team, Wilmer won second place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search in 1987, for a project involving 3-coloring of graphs.
[1] She worked with Persi Diaconis for her doctoral dissertation, Exact Rates of Convergence for Some Simple Non-Reversible Markov Chains,[11] but after Diaconis moved from Harvard to Stanford in 1997 her official doctoral advisor became Joe Harris.
[12] With David A. Levin and Yuval Peres, Wilmer is the author of the textbook Markov Chains and Mixing Times (American Mathematical Society, 2009; 2nd ed., 2017).