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2002-2003 Archived News ItemsMarshall Cohen Wins Carpenter AwardMarshall Cohen, who retired
this June after 35 years of distinguished service to Cornell and the Mathematics
Department, is the proud recipient of a 2003 Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial
Advising Award. Marshall has been an extraordinarily devoted advisor with
a special interest in the advising of minority students. He is known throughout
the university for this work and received the Arts & Sciences Dean’s
Award for Excellence in Advising (later called the Paul Award) the first
year that it was given (in 1992). The Carpenter Award was established
in February 2002 by Stephen Ashley, a member of the Board of Trustees,
to honor his former advisor. Four individual awards of $5000 each are
made annually. Department Mourns Loss of Professor RothausProfessor Oscar S. Rothaus passed away Saturday, May 24, 2003 at Cayuga
Medical Center at Ithaca. He will be sorely missed. Oscar served the Mathematics
Department and Cornell University with distinction for 37 years, including
a term as department chair (1973–76). Before coming to Cornell,
he was a mathematician for the National Security Agency in Washington,
DC (1953–1960) and Deputy Director of the Institute for Defense
Analyses in Princeton, NJ (1960–65). Oscar was an outstanding contributor
to the areas of several complex variables and Sobolev inequalities. Oscar's family has decided against having a Memorial Service. Instead,
since he enjoyed going to the Cornell Plantations, a tree is being planted
there which will bear a plaque in his memory. Anyone who would like to
make a donation towards this memorial may send a check to Cornell Plantations,
ATTN: External Relations, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca, NY 14853. Please
either attach a note or write "Oscar Rothaus Memorial" on your
check. If you have questions, please contact Nancy Cusumano at the Cornell
Plantations at 254-4727. Graduation 2003 PhotosDepartment Celebrates Retirement of Five Faculty MembersThe Mathematics Department will gather on Wednesday, May 14th at 3:00 PM in the mathematics lounge to pay tribute to five retirees: Marshall Cohen, Harry Kesten, Michael Morley, Oscar Rothaus and Beverly West. Collectively they have served the department for 181 years! Eugene Dynkin to Receive Honorary Degree from WarwickThe Council of the University of Warwick has invited Prof. Eugene
Dynkin to receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science. The degree
will be conferred at a Summer Degree Congregation to be held July 10th,
when candidates from their Department of Mathematics will be presented
their degrees. Cornell Ph.D. Awarded Centennial FellowshipWe are pleased to report that former graduate student John
Meier has been awarded a Centennial Fellowship by the American Mathematical
Society. Congratulations, John! The AMS Centennial Research Fellowship
Program makes awards annually to outstanding mathematicians to help further
their careers in research. John Meier earned his Ph.D. here in 1992 under
the direction of Ken Brown
and is currently an associate professor at Lafayette College in Easton,
Pennsylvania. [AMS
News Release] Michael Morley Wins Steele PrizeAt the recent Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland, Prof.
Michael Morley was presented with the 2003 AMS Steele Prize, one of
the highest distinctions in mathematics. [AMS
News Release] Department Faculty to RetireEffective December 31, 2002, Michael
Morley and Beverly West
will retire from the Mathematics Department. We thank them for their years
of service — 35 years for Mike and 33 years for Bev — and offer
them our best wishes for the future. Awards Presented at Department Holiday PartyDepartment chair Ken Brown presented the department teaching awards for 2002 at the department's annual holiday party on Friday, December 6th. Senior faculty, junior faculty and teaching assistant awards were given to Michael Stillman, Matthew Fickus and Christopher Francisco, respectively. The winners were chosen from among over 50 nominees. Director of Graduate Studies Michael Stillman then awarded the Battig
Prize to Todd Kemp,
the York Award to Christopher
Hardin, and the Hutchinson Award to Radu
Haiduc and Fernando
Schwartz. Cornell Professor Elected VP of AMS Professor Karen Vogtmann
has been elected Vice President of the American
Mathematical Society. Her term will begin on February 1, 2003 and
run for three years, ending January 1, 2006. AMS election results are
posted at www.ams.org/secretary/ams-election-results.html William Thurston Accepts Offer of Professorship The department is extremely pleased to report that William Thurston has
accepted our offer of a professorship and will join the faculty in fall
2003. Winner of the Fields Medal in 1982, Thurston is a fantastic geometer,
who completely transformed how a whole generation thinks about the subject.
He discovered links between topology, geometry, and complex analysis,
which none had suspected, and in the process he invented a world of new
techniques that still leave the mathematical community awestruck. William Thurston Speaks at Joint Oliver/Olivetti Club On Tuesday, September 10th, Fields Medalist William Thurston (University
of California at Davis) spoke at a special joint Oliver/Olivetti Club
— The
Genus of Curves in 3-Manifolds is NP Complete. Welcome
New Faculty and Graduate Students! Cornell Faculty Addressed International Congress of Mathematicians Cornell Mathematics professors Harry
Kesten, Greg Lawler
and John Smillie addressed
the International Congress of Mathematicians,
held August 20–28, 2002, in Beijing, China. The International Congress
of Mathematicians (ICM) is a quadrennial congress held under the auspices
of the International Mathematical
Union (IMU). It is an important event of mathematicians the world
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