Philip Protter, who teaches operations research at Cornell, will give the annual Bullitt Lecture at the University of Louisville on April 3. The topic is “Mathematics meets Wall Street: How high finance became safer and more dangerous at the same time.” For a cute (yes, cute!) poster on the event, click here or visit:
http://www.math.louisville.edu/Bullitt/
Meantime, Philip’s wife, Diane Rubenstein, of the Cornell government department, has a new book out entitled This is not a President: Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary — details at:
http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/Govt/faculty/Rubenstein.html.