Sally Cockburn
Sally Patricia Cockburn 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 a professor of mathematics at Hamilton College, and chair of the mathematics department at Hamilton.[1][2]
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,[3] and also has a master's degree from the University of Ottawa.[2] 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.[4]
She joined the Hamilton College faculty in 1991, and was promoted to full professor in 2014.[1] At Hamilton, she has also served as the coach for the college's squash team.[3]
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.[3][5]
References
- ^ a b Foster, Holly (October 27, 2014), "Three Promoted to Professor", News & Events, Hamilton College, retrieved 2018-11-04
- ^ a b "Sally Cockburn", Faculty directory, Hamilton College, retrieved 2018-11-04
- ^ a b c "Deranged Socks", Allendoerfer Award citation, Mathematical Association of America, 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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