C of C Math News Briefs:

• Math and the City: Cornell University math professor Steve Strogatz has an interesting piece in the NYTimes about the mathematical aspects of the size of cities.
• Congratulations to Math Department Faculty who won College awards in 2009: Debby Jeter received the Distinguished Teaching Award, Liz Jurisich the Distinguished Advising Award and Alex Kasman the SSM Distinguished Achievement Award.
• Congratulations to CofC COMAP Competitors: The results for the 2009 COMAP Contest in Mathematical Modeling are in. Our teams set a CofC record---both teams earned Meritorious Distinction this year! Of the 1675 submissions, only .5% received the top honor of Outstanding Paper, 18% received the next best honor of Meritorious, 18% received Honorable Mention, and the remaining were Successful Participants. If you see our mathletes, please take time to congratulate them on this honor.

  C of C COMAP Mathletes:

  • Meritorious Team of Hau Chan, Taylor Hamrick, and Ryan Parker
  • Meritorious Team of Patrick Moran, Caroline Edwards, and Jonathan Tashakori
• Or check out our C of C Math News Archive for more information.

International Math News Briefs (from the AMS):

Hot Research from EurekAlert:

• Using elliptic curves to strengthen IT Security
• American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) Announces Proof of Quantum Unique Egrodicity Conjecture (Sarnak: "This is one of the best theorems of the year.")
• Combining Math and Medicine to Treat Leukemia
• Mathematician brings us a step closer to true invisibility technology
• The Mathematics of String Theory May Provide Information about How Quarks Behave in Everyday Objects
• University of Alberta researchers unravel intricate animal patterns
• York mathematician probes geometric route to combat viruses
• MIT reveals the tangle under turbulence