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Assistant professors Pamela Chang, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Daniel Halpern-Leistner and Peter McMahon have won 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Everywhere Steven Strogatz goes in the city, he sees math.
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The research-sharing platform is a free resource for scholars around the world in fields including physics, math and computer science, who use the service to share their own cutting-edge research and read work submitted by others.
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A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
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Robert Strichartz, professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died on December 19 after a long illness. He was 78.
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The Math Department is saddened to share that our colleague and friend Professor Robert Strichartz died on December 19, 2021, after a long illness. He was 78.Bob Strichartz earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1966, where he worked with Elias Stein. His thesis was entitled, Multipliers on...
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The 2021 Math Department awards recipients were announced at the annual department holiday party, held in person in the Statler ballroom.Junior Faculty Teaching Awards were presented to Phil Sosoe and Katie Mann. Adrian Lewis and Tim Riley received Senior Faculty Teaching Awards. Graduate Teaching Awards went to Trevor Jones and Mark Walth.The...
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David Williamson will receive the 2022 American Mathematical Society Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for his paper, co-authored with Michel Goemans, "Improved Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Cut and Satisfiability Problems Using Semidefinite Programming," published in 1995 in the Journal of the ACM. This paper, which focused...
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The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
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Heather Wilber (Ph.D. ’21) is one of three recipients of the sixth annual Association for Women in Mathematics Dissertation Prize. Prizes will be presented to Wilber and the other recipients on January 5, 2022 during the Joint Prize Ceremony at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, WA.Established in 2016, the AWM Dissertation Prize is an...
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