Sally Cockburn
Sally Patricia Cockburn (born 1960)[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
[edit]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]
Following receipt of her master's degree, she taught math at a Maru-a-Pula_School, a private secondary school in Gaborone, Botswana.[5]
She completed her Ph.D. in algebraic topology in 1991 from Yale University. Her dissertation, The Gamma-Filtration on Extra-Special -Groups, was supervised by Ronnie Lee.[6]
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
[edit]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][7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Birth year from ISNI authority control file, accessed 2018-11-26.
- 1 2 Foster, Holly (October 27, 2014), "Three Promoted to Professor", News & Events, Hamilton College, retrieved 2018-11-04
- 1 2 "Sally Cockburn", Faculty directory, Hamilton College, retrieved 2018-11-04
- 1 2 3 "Deranged Socks", Allendoerfer Award citation, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2018-11-04
- ↑ "Queen's Mathematical Communicator" (PDF). Queensu.ca. December 1986. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- ↑ 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, S2CID 218541212
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