Biography:Sally Cockburn
Sally Patricia Cockburn (born 1947)[1] is a mathematician whose research ranges from algebraic topology and set theory to geometric graph theory and combinatorial optimization. A Canadian immigrant to the US, she is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics at Hamilton College, and former chair of the mathematics department at Hamilton.[2][3]
Education and career
Cockburn is originally from Ottawa. She earned a bachelor's and master's degree from Queen's University in Ontario, in 1982 and 1984 respectively,[4] and also has a master's degree from the University of Ottawa.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in algebraic topology in 1991 from Yale University. Her dissertation, The Gamma-Filtration on Extra-Special P-Groups, was supervised by Ronnie Lee.[5]
She joined the Hamilton College faculty in 1991, and was promoted to full professor in 2014.[2] At Hamilton, she has also served as the coach for the college's squash team.[4]
Recognition
Cockburn won the 2014 Carl B. Allendoerfer Award of the Mathematical Association of America with Joshua Lesperance for their joint work, "deranged socks", on a variation of the problem of counting derangements.[4][6]
References
- ↑ Birth year from ISNI authority control file, accessed 2018-11-26.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Foster, Holly (October 27, 2014), "Three Promoted to Professor", News & Events (Hamilton College), https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/three-promoted-to-professor, retrieved 2018-11-04
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Sally Cockburn", Faculty directory (Hamilton College), https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail/sally-cockburn, retrieved 2018-11-04
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Deranged Socks", Allendoerfer Award citation (Mathematical Association of America), https://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/deranged-socks, retrieved 2018-11-04
- ↑ Sally Cockburn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "2014 Carl B. Allendoerfer Awards", Mathematics Magazine 87 (4): 318–320, October 2014, doi:10.4169/math.mag.87.4.318
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