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Lionel Levine and Katherine E. Stange (University of Colorado, Boulder) received the Halmos-Ford award from the Mathematical Association of America for their paper "How to Make the Most of a Shared Meal: Plan the Last Bite First" in The American Mathematical Monthly, 119:7 (2012), pp. 550-565.
Abstract: If you are sharing a meal with a companion, how best to make sure you get your favourite mouthfuls? Ethiopian Dinner is a game in which two players take turns eating morsels from a common plate. Each morsel comes with a pair of utility values measuring its tastiness to the two players. Kohler and Chandrasekaharan discovered a good strategy -- a subgame perfect equilibrium, to be exact -- for this game. We give a new visual proof of their result. The players arrive at the equilibrium by figuring out their last move first and working backward. We conclude that it's never too early to start thinking about dessert.
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Cornell University are pleased to announce that Megumi Harada, McMaster University, Canada, will receive the 2013-2014 Ruth I. Michler Prize. The prize grants a mid-career woman in academia a residential fellowship in the Cornell Mathematics Department without teaching obligations.
Visiting Assistant Professor Nate Eldredge explains why he has not purchased a Powerball ticket.
John Guckenheimer and Philip Holmes (Princeton) were awarded the 2013 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition at the joint mathematics meeting in San Diego, January 10. | Cornell Chronicle, February 2013