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In the News ...
- Announcements:
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(23 Sep 2009) Professor Peter Winkler has been awarded a 3-year grant from the National Science
Foundation, entitled Combinatorial Methods for Random Structures
in the Plane.
Professor Winkler will be giving the Simons Lectures in Applied Mathematics at MIT on April 28, 29 and 30, 2010. Tentative title of the series: Forceless Physics and the Combinatorial Wrench. Previous Simons Lecturers include Laurent Lafforgue, Peter Shor, Grigory Perelman, Terence Tao and John Conway.
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(23 Sep 2009) Professor Peter Winkler has been awarded a 3-year grant from the National Science
Foundation, entitled Combinatorial Methods for Random Structures
in the Plane.
- Documentaries:
- The Math Life (A documentary film by Wendy Conquest, Bob Drake, and Dan Rockmore)
- Photographs:
- You're never too old to savor a good math
book....
Edward Shapiro (Valley News front page, 13 August 1999).
- You're never too old to savor a good math
book....
- Newspaper and Journal Articles:
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The Van Gogh Project: Art Meets Mathematics
in Ongoing International Study - From SIAM News, Volume 42, Number 4, May 2009. - A Day of Pleasant Puzzlement - The Valley News covers Mechanical Puzzles Day, a well-received symposium organized by Professor Peter Winkler.
- January 2008 cover of the Notices of the AMS, for which Alexander Barnett has computed all eigenmode and random-wave images
- Dartmouth students build online archive featuring historic mathematician (Susan Knapp, Dartmouth College, Feb 1, 2007)
- The professor's days are numbered (Keith O'Brien, Boston Globe, July 18, 2005)
- Count Him In. Math? It's All Around to Be Found. One Writer Is Positive He's Equal to the Task (Linton Weeks, Washington Post, May 23, 2005)
- As the Stakes Increase, Prime-Number Theory Moves Closer to Proof (Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2005)
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Crunching the Numbers. The Math Society gains momentum
(Vox, Volume XXIII, Issue 9, January 10, 2005)
(local copy) - Exploiting a Beautiful Mind ( Daniel Rockmore, The Chronicle Review, January 25, 2002)
- Count on Numbers to always be there ( Daniel Rockmore, Boston Globe, Aug 8, 2000)
- Logic is the Language of Love ( Daniel Rockmore, Dallas Morning News, July 7, 2000)
- Uncertainty is Certain in Mathematics and Life (Daniel Rockmore, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 23, 2000)
- What are the chances of that? (Richard Morin, Washington Post, April 4, 1999)
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- Radio:
- Professor Peter Winkler talks with NHPR Correspondent Sean Hurley about being a Mathematician. (Friday, January 30, 2009)
- Professor Peter
Winkler speaks on Sudoku-mania (The Exchange on NHPR, 2 June
2006).
- Mathematical Commentaries: a series on
Vermont Public Radio,
presented by Professor Dan Rockmore (requires Real Audio Player ) - Friday the 13th (MP3) (13 Jun, 2008)
- Math Superheroes (MP3) (2 Jun, 2008)
- Math, a love story (25 Jul, 2002)
- Science Heroes and 'QED' (10 Jul, 2002)
- New York Zeros (26 Jun, 2002)
- Four degrees of Kelvin (11 Oct, 2001)
- Six Hugs Away (2 Oct, 2001)
- Wrestling with the Squared Circle (24 May, 2001)
- Halving Your Cake (16 April, 2001)
- Many Men, No Votes (7 Feb, 2001)
- In Search of New Numbers (11 Nov, 2000)
- Can you hear the shape of your date? (19 July, 2000)
- The Logic of Love (5 July, 2000)
- Getting lost to get found (4 May, 2000)
- Oh no! It's Moe (29 Mar, 2000)
- The geometry of life (5 Jan, 2000)
- Mathematics of the Millennium (22 Dec, 1999)
- Jackson Pollock (1 Dec, 1999)
- Name that Function (3 Nov, 1999)
- Mathvertising (6 Oct, 1999)
- My Computer Ate My Homework (22 Sep, 1999)
- The Rare Beauty of Nine (9 Sep, 1999)
- Sounds like Science (Math's a Beach) (26 June, 1999)
- Mathematical Monkeys (May 26, 1999)
- Sounds like Science (Math and Fashion) (April 24, 1999)
- Pleasantville (March 16, 1999)
- Happy ``Pi'' Day (March 14, 1999)
- Fuzzy Logic and Washington DC (January 20, 1999)
- A Slice of Pi (November 17, 1998)
- What does a mathematician do? (October 28, 1998)
- Math in the movies (October 13, 1998)