News Archive for 2015
Obituary: Carla D. Martin '05
The applied mathematics community suffered a major loss when Carla Dee Martin '05 was killed in tragic circumstances on October 27, 2015. read more
Einstein’s First Proof
Professor Steve Strogatz wrote a piece for The New Yorker titled, "Einstein's First Proof." read more
Delchamps receives excellence in teaching award
David Delchamps, Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the Michael Tien ’72 Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Engineering. read more
Wagner receives award for teaching distinction
Aaron Wagner, Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the Douglas Whitney ’61 Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Engineering. read more
Rafael Pass's ANONIZE gains recognition on front page of Wired
Rafael Pass created a crytographically secure anonymous survey system called ANONIZE which has gained recognition in a Wired article. read more
Éva Tardos named editor-in-chief of ACM journal
Éva Tardos, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science, has been named the new editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery. read more
Donations help create 'supercomputer' for students
State of the art donated equipment by Intel and Dell will create a computer cluster dedicated to a course on parallel computing. read more
CAM's Stillman among "The 10 Best Professors At Cornell University"
Business Insider includes CAM field member Michael Stillman among Cornell's 10 best professors. read more
CAM's Hood, Bindel win two awards for "Localization Theorems for Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems"
Amanda Hood and David Bindel have been awarded the 2015 SIAG/Linear Algebra Prize. read more
Halpern named a 2015 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Joe Halpern has been named a 2015 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which honors "the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists and civic, business and... read more
Rock-paper-scissors may explain evolutionary 'games' in nature
Steven Strogatz and Danielle Toupo, Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Applied Mathematics, decided to get to the root of what happens when players switch strategies mid-game. read more
Kleinberg to receive Allen Newell Award
Jon Kleinberg has been named the recipient of the 2014 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award, given to an individual selected for career contributions that have breadth in computer science or across... read more
John Guckenheimer to give 2015 Jürgen Moser Lecture
John Guckenheimer has been selected to give the 2015 Jürgen Moser Lecture at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in May. read more
Shoemaker to receive ASCE-EWRI 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award
CAM field member Christine Shoemaker has been selected by the ASCE-EWRI as recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. read more
Steven Strogatz wins Lewis Thomas science writing prize
Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science. He will be honored at a March 30 reception at Rockefeller... read more
Shmoys on the mathematics of snow removal
Professor David Shmoys weighs in on the mathematics of snow removal in Wired.com article. read more
Kozen honored for theoretical computer science work
Dexter Kozen, Ph.D. ’77, the Joseph Newton Pew Jr. Professor in Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science for "pioneering and seminal work.” read more
Liu, Todd elected to National Academy of Engineering
Philip Liu and Michael Todd have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Liu and Todd join 33 current or former Cornell faculty who are NAE members. read more
Adrian Lewis presents invited lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians
The world’s top mathematicians have been invited to speak at the quadrennial conference. read more
Mike Todd elected to NAE
Mike Todd has been elected to The National Academy of Engineering (NAE). read more
CAM alum combines tech, creativity with Fly app
If you hear Tim Novikoff, Ph.D. '13, speak and you're of a certain age, you might recognize him as the voice of Jeffy from MTV's "Daria" animated series from the mid-1990s. read more
Professor Stillman named 2015 AMS Fellow
Professor Michael Stillman has been named a 2015 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). read more
