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Steven Strogatz was among three Cornell faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, joining colleagues Eugene Dynkin (1978), Leonard Gross (2004), John Guckenheimer (2008), Harry Kesten (1999), and Laurent Saloff-Coste (2011). | posted April 2012 |
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Irena Peeva awarded Simons Fellowship
Professor Irena Peeva has been awarded a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, providing the opportunity for a year-long sabbatical to pursue research in the area of free resolutions. The main scientific goal of the project is to study the
structure of free resolutions over complete intersections. Alan Demlow (Ph.D. 2002 under Lars Wahlbin, now at University of Kentucky) is another of this year's award recipients. | posted April 2012 | About the Simons Fellowship |
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Sacks Prize awarded to Mingzhong Cai
Mingzhong Cai (Ph.D. 2011 under Richard Shore) has won the prestigious Sacks Prize for the best thesis in logic this past year (jointly with Adam Day, currently at UC-Berkeley). Mingzhong is the fourth Cornell Ph.D. to receive the award. Previous winners have included Denis Hirschfeldt and Antonio Montalban. | posted March 2012 | About the Sacks Prize |
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The Cornell student chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics sponsored its first celebration of Pi Day on March 14. Math faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates competed, each attempting to devour a whole pie in under 13 minutes. | CornellCast, March 2012 |
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Math Club opened Puzzle Night to area high school students on February 2, giving them an opportunity to engage with math in a warm and welcoming atmosphere rather than the competition-based math activities usually available in high schools. | Cornell Chronicle, February 2012 | see also Ithaca Journal article |
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Ben Nachman ’12 is one of 14 winners nationwide of a Churchill Scholarship. Ben plans to use the scholarship to participate in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge for a Master of Advanced Study. | Cornell Chronicle, February 2012 |
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Ravi Ramakrishna was among three professors selected to receive this year's Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship for “sustained records of effective, inspiring, and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students.” | Cornell Chronicle, January 2012 |
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Applied math graduate student Tim Novikoff developed a mathematical model for education software while creating Flash of Genius, a smartphone app for SAT preparation. The results are described in a paper co-authored with Jon Kleinberg and Steven Strogatz. | Cornell Chronicle, January 2012 |
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William Thurston was awarded the 2012 Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research at the joint mathematics meeting in Boston, January 5. | Cornell Chronicle, January 2012 |
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The Mathematical Association of America has selected Daina Taimina’s Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes (AK Peters; 2009) as the winner of the 2012 Euler Book Prize. | MAA News page, December 2011 |
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Eugene Dynkin recorded his talks with mathematicians around the world for more than 50 years. The library has digitized, organized, and curated the information on a new website. | Cornell Chronicle, November 2011 |
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John Hubbard discussed how closing roads and bridges helps speed up traffic in his April 30 talk, The Price of Anarchy, as part of Math Awareness Month. | Cornell Chronicle, May 2011 |
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Laurent Saloff-Coste was among 212 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced April 19. | Cornell Chronicle, April 2011 |
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Steven Strogatz presented the talk, Doing Math in Public: From the Columns of The New York Times to ‘The Calculus of Friendship,’ as part of the Conversations at Keeton discussion series. | Cornell Chronicle, February 2011 |
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Thanks to Project Euclid, it's now possible to display math problems on web sites as if they were on a chalkboard. | Cornell Chronicle, January 2011 |
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The University of Chicago awarded Anil Nerode an honorary Doctor of Science degree. The degree was presented in June by Nerode’s former student Robert I. Soare. | posted November 2010 |
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Nearly 100 colleagues and current and former students of Ken Brown attended the October “Approaches to Group Theory” Conference in his honor. | Cornell Chronicle, October 2010 |
