Information about, by, and for HCSSiM alumns
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We held a conference in 2006 to celebrate the 34th Summer Studies happening in such a nicely-divisible year.
Where have HCSSiM alumns been attending college in recent years?
Here's a sampling from students who attended HCSSiM in 2003 or later...
| Brown University California Institute of Technology Cambridge University Carleton College Columbia University Harvard College Harvey Mudd College Haverford College Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
New York University |
Awards won by HCSSiM alumns...
In recent years we've had Intel and Siemens winners and finalists, the first König Prize winner, an American Institute of Mathematics Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Sliffe Award winner (who is also the currrent ARML lead problem writer), world-class ranked Rubik's solvers, and a UPA Ultimate Player of the Year. Two HCSSiM alumns are MacArthur Fellows and two are Morgan Prize winners (with an additional Honorable Mention). Alumns often qualify for the USAMO and do well on the Mandelbrot and the Putnam. In particular, 26 HCSSiM-ers have been on the US IMO team in 20 different years, and 16 alumns have placed in the top 5 on the Putnam in 18 different years. Alumns have formed successful teams for the iTest and PUMaC as well.
HCSSiM online presences, hosted by alumns of the program
Sara Smollett's
YP page
PowerThirst video parodies PowerPig and PowerSet
HCSSiM LiveJournal Community
Wei-Jing Zhu's videos of the Yellow Pig gallery
YP links; click on "Our Editors"
to see the connection
The largest HCSSiM Facebook group
John Zhang's HCSSiM page
Here are some not-so-recent alumns of the program, and what they're doing now. (This list was generated mostly at random. If you want to be added, let us know.)
Daniel Zwillinger is a Senior Principal Engineer at Raytheon, Founder and CTO of Aztec Corporation, and the editor of the CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae.
Susan Landau is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and works primarily with cryptography.
Eric Lander is a Member of the Whitehead Institute, Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and professor of biology at MIT. Here is a link to a mathematical article about Eric Lander.
Bram Cohen created/founded/works at BitTorrent.
Jessica Riskin is a historian of science at Stanford University.
Mike Smith is engineering faculty and the FAS Dean at Harvard.
Danny Glasser works for Total World Domination Industries as a Software Design Engineer.
Carmen Egido is (or was) Director of the Applications Research Labs at Intel Corporation.
Erik Winfree is a faculty member in Computer Science and Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech.
Gregory Sorkin is a Research Staff Member in Mathematics at IBM; also at IBM, Martin Wattenberg.
Donna Crystal Llewellyn is the Director of the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.
Steven Alexander practiced intellectual property law until he decided to teach high school mathematics instead.
Robert Lipshutz is a Vice President at Affymetrix.
Aaron Ellison does research in community ecology at Harvard.
Noam Freedman is the Chief Network Architect at Akamai Technologies.
PJ Karafiol is in the Math Department at Walter Payton College Prep (Chicago, IL).
Loren Shure is the director of math and signal processing development at MathWorks. (Here's her blog.)
Mitchell Burman founded Analytics Operations Engineering.
Sue Hannaford is a neurobiologist at the University of Puget Sound.
Barry Nalebuff is a Management professor at Yale.
Seth Schoen is a Staff Technologist at the EFF.
At MS Research, Joshua Goodman works on speech recognition and spam and Adam Kalai does algorithmic game theory.
Marshall Kavesh is founder and CEO of European Computer Telecoms AG.
Eli Mlawer does climate research at AER.
Victor Su is CTO of Ruby Networks.
In the federal government, we have Valerie Zartarian, environmental engineer for the EPA, Aaron Ucko writing genomics software at NCBI, and Alvin Martin doing speech recognition research at NIST.
Stephen Weeks works at Jane Street Capital.
Noam Shazeer works at Google, as do Sara Smollett, Geoff Davis, and Ilya Kirnos...
David Manderscheid Dean of Arts/Sciences, UN-L, awards, etc.
Peter Oppenheimer is a Research Engineer at Human Interface Technology Lab, U Washington.
...and, of course, we have many alumns who are mathematics faculty, including (but not limited to) Jason Fulman, Elizabeth Wilmer, Japheth Wood, Jennifer Taback, Jim Propp, Ann Trenk, Bjorn Poonen, Judith Miller, Joshua Cooper, Matthew Boylan, Mike Reid, Dana Randall, Art Duval, John Sullivan, Kathryn Lesh, John Baldwin, Adam Marcus, Douglas Arnold, Susan Staples, Robin Forman, Marcia Groszek, Nicholas Proudfoot, Jeremy Avigad (also Philosophy faculty), D. Jake Wildstrom, Rennie Mirollo, Michael King, Paul Feit, Bill Martin, David Pollack, Sandy Ganzell, Russell Lyons, Victor Wickerhauser, Daniel Ullman, Ed Scheinerman, Jim Kelliher, Bill Dunbar, and Larry Riddle.
...and some alumns who are faculty in statistics, biostatistics, and/or epidemiology, including David Steinsaltz, Michael Miller, Mark Glickman, Jonathan Dushoff, and Juan Lin.
...and plenty of computer science faculty as well, such as Neil Immerman, Lenore Cowen, Afra Zomorodian, Marie desJardins, Stephen Fenner, Nancy Webb, Calvin Lin, Dina Goldin, Joe Kilian, Serap Savari, David Notkin, Judy Goldsmith, Robert Schapire, Joel Wein, Kent Boklan, and David Zuckerman.
...and many physics/astronomy faculty, including Gabriel Aeppli, Amy Liu, Jonathan Gelbord, Lisa Randall, Aaron Pierce, Eve Ostriker, Adam Leibovich, Richard Louie, and Michael Pepper.
...and some engineering faculty, including Morton Barlaz, Anne Lazarides, Scot Kuo, Martin Fischer, and Vijay Pai.
We have some alumns who are lawyers or law faculty, including
Jeremy Curcuri (also
an engineer), Eugene Volokh, Gowri
Ramachandran, Ira
Matetsky, Douglas
Henkin, Alex
Chartove, and John
Rothchild.
...and economics faculty members, including Jason Abrevaya, Glenn Ellison, Susan Feigenbaum, and Larry Ausubel.
...and medical researchers and faculty, including Doris Stoffers (endocrinology), Larry Buxbaum (infectious diseases), Julie Ahringer (developmental cell biology), Scott Cantor (clinical decision analysis), Cate McKegney (family medicine/geriatrics), Michael Lev (radiology), and Marilyn Moy (pulmonary disease).
Finally, a picture...
This was taken in November 2002, in Seventeen, Ohio. Shown are Steve Pav '91, sarah-marie belcastro (senior staff), David Levitt '01, Tom Hull (senior staff), and Abie Flaxman '95 (also junior staff).
