News Archive for 2017
Engineers program tiny robots to move, think like insects
While engineers have had success building tiny, insect-like robots, programming them to behave autonomously like real insects continues to present technical challenges. A group of Cornell engineers... read more
Strogatz's study of 'swarmalators' could direct future science
How does the Japanese tree frog figure into the latest work of noted mathematician Steven Strogatz? As it turns out, quite prominently. read more
Dr. Phil Liu receives Hamaguchi Award For Enhancement of Tsunami/Coastal Disaster Resilience
Commemorating World Tsunami Awareness Day of November 5 the “Hamaguchi Award" is given to individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to the enhancement of coastal... read more
Kim Chuan Toh to receive Farkas Prize from INFORMS Optimization Society
Kim Chuan Toh Ph.D. ’96 is the 2017 recipient of the Farkas Prize, awarded annually to a mid-career researcher in the field of optimization by the INFORMS Optimization Society. read more
Éva Tardos to received lectureship award
Éva Tardos will be honored with the 2017-18 Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award read more
ECE Prof. Johnson to work with Cornell’s Johnson Art Museum to build a tool to authenticate watermarks in Rembrandt’s prints
Cornell Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor C. Richard Johnson, currently based at Cornell Tech and Andy Weislogel of the Johnson Art Museum at Cornell recently received a Digital... read more
Fengqi You wins 2018 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award
This is the 3rd major international award that Professor You has received recently, in addition to the 2017 AIChE Environmental Division Early Career Award and the 2017 AIChE Sustainable Engineering... read more
Cornell projects to cultivate digital agriculture landscape
Expanding on Cornell’s digital agriculture initiative, a slate of six projects totaling more than $1 million will generate innovative research in the intersecting fields of agriculture, computation... read more
Studying Complex Financial Networks
Andreea Minca develops new mathematical tools to reveal instabilities and their potential impact within financial networks—Lehman-AIG, for example. read more
Strogatz, colleagues aim to improve math communications
Math professor Steven Strogatz and his team secures a $2.5 million grant from National Science Foundation to help students learn how to do research, then communicate their results more clearly. read more
Kuehn (CAM '10) receives GAMM prize
CAM alum Christian Kuehn '10 receives the Richard-von-Mises Prize. read more
Paper co-authored by CAM's Gomes wins Innovation Application Award
Paper co-authored by Carla Gomes wins Innovation Application Award at IAAI 2017. read more
Pi Day = Cornell Giving Day
Steve Strogatz explains Pi Day to Hunter Rawlings for Cornell Giving Day read more
Giving Day to direct support to myriad Cornell causes
Cornell Giving Day 2017 is March 14, one 24-hour period for alumni, parents and friends to come together to support the university. read more
New website to facilitate launching innovations in Upstate New York
The Upstate New York I-Corps Node (UNY I-Corps) launched a new website today. The site provides researchers the opportunity to connect their strong scientific and technical knowledge with targeted... read more
Mathematical models predict how we wait in line, traffic
Jamol Pender, assistant professor in Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, collaborated with Cornell colleagues to determine how we choose which line to wait in. read more
Strogatz receives the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship
CAM's Steven Strogatz is among seven faculty members recognized for excellent teaching of undergraduate students. read more
Eva Tardos receives EATCS computer science award
Eva Tardos has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the EATCS Award. read more
Pepiot receives an NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Perrine Pepiot receives a 5-year, $501,233 award. read more
CAM field members featured in "Complex Systems, Network Science and Computation"
CAM field members are featured in "Complex Systems, Network Science and Computation (Solving the world’s most challenging problems)" read more
