What to read in 2022? A&S faculty weigh in
A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
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Robert Strichartz, math analyst, dies at 78
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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Professor Robert Strichartz dies at 78
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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2021 Math Department Prizewinners Announced
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 Receives AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
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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Nexus Scholars Program applications now open
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 Awarded AWM Dissertation Prize
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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Modeling suggests friendships may lead to lopsided elections
Have you ever thought about not voting because your candidate’s victory seems assured? Think again.
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Viral news – true and untrue – moves equally through Twitter
Viral, true tweets spread just as fast, wide and deep as viral untrue tweets, Cornell researchers have found – changing the prevailing assumption that untruths on Twitter move faster.This finding helps illuminate why certain mitigating strategies to curb disinformation on Twitter haven’t worked, while also suggesting that the most effective...
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When is a basin of attraction like an octopus?
In dynamical systems research, a “basin of attraction” is the set of all the starting points — usually close to one another — that arrive at the same final state as the system evolves through time.
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