Sally Cockburn
Template:Short description Sally Patricia Cockburn (born 1960)Template:R 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.Template:R
Education and career
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,Template:R and also has a master's degree from the University of Ottawa.Template:R
Following receipt of her master's degree, she taught math at a Maru-a-Pula_School, a private secondary school in Gaborone, Botswana.[1]
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.Template:R
She joined the Hamilton College faculty in 1991 and was promoted to full professor in 2014.Template:R At Hamilton, she has also served as the coach for the college's squash team.Template:R
Recognition
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.Template:R
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