Peter Winkler

mailing address:  Dept. of Mathematics
         Dartmouth
	 Hanover, NH 03755-3551
office:  Kemeny Hall 231
phone:   603-646-3468
fax:     603-646-1312
email:   firstname dot lastname
	 at dartmouth dot edu

Position at Dartmouth:
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Albert Bradley Third Century Professor in the Sciences

Current and past PhD students:
David Arasmith, mathematics; Rachel Esselstein, mathematics; Chien-Chung Huang, computer science; Lizz Moseman, mathematics; Amir Barghi, mathematics; Natasha Komarov, mathematics

Research Areas:
Discrete mathematics and the theory of computing; probability theory; applications

Previous affiliations:
Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA, 12/05-5/05
Senior Research Fellow,Clay Mathematics Institute, 1/05-4/05
'03-'04: Member, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton NJ
'94-'04: Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies: Director, Fundamental Mathematics Research
'89-'94: Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies): Director, Research Group in Mathematics and Theoretical CS
'77-'91: Emory University, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science---Asst Prof., Assoc. Prof., Prof., Chairman
'75-'77: Stanford University, Dept. of Mathematics---Asst. Prof
'68-'71: U.S. Navy

Mathematical publications:
List with links to PostScript files

Books on mathematical puzzles:
Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection, AK Peters Ltd 2004;
and Mathematical Mind-Benders,, AK Peters Ltd 2007. You can find corrections and additions to the latter here.

Education:
'71-'75: Yale U., Ph.D. in Mathematics; Abraham Robinson and Angus Macintyre, advisors
'64-'68: Harvard U., B.A. in Mathematics

Grants, awards, patents:
NSF and ONR research grants, 9/75-8/77, 7/83-10/92, 1/02-6/04, 4/06--
Lester R. Ford Award, Mathematical Association of America, 7/91
Patents allowed (8) and pending (1) in marine navigation, cryptology, holography, distributed computing and optical networking

Hobbies:
Squash, bridge, piano playing and composing (esp. ragtime); mechanical puzzles; mathematical puzzles;
"7 Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly" from the Seventh Gathering for Gardner, now with solutions included!

Some Mathematics and Computer Science web pages:

• Bibliographies:
  • Search text of technical reports (Indiana)
  • CARL/UNCOVER - search journal articles (many fields) by title/author
  • Theoretical CS journals/bibliographies (via MIT)
• Journals:
  • Information and Computation (journal)
  • The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
  • MIT Press Journals
  • CPC - Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
• Places:
  • DIMACS - Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
  • IAS - Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
  • NSF - National Science Foundation
• Professional Associations:
  • AMS - American Mathematical Society
  • ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
  • ACM SIGACT - Special Interest Group for Algorithms and Computation
  • CRA - Computing Research Association
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

• Library of Congress
• best URL for mechanical puzzles
• Bridge World magazine
• one of my bridge articles, after translation to Dutch and back to English.
• the same article in the original English.

People:

• ACM rolodex of people in theoretical computer science

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Last modified: 10 Dec 2004