Selected Press and Media Appearances
On awards I have received:
- Jamie Lockwood, "23 Students, 16 Universities, 12 Scientific Challenges, 1 Bright Future," Yodel Anecdotal [Yahoo! Corporation Blog], May 5, 2010. (The press release announcing my selection for the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program.)
- "2010 Morgan Prize," Notices of the American Mathematical Society 57(4), (2010), pp. 517-518. (The Notices article announcing my Morgan Prize award.)
- "Scott Duke Kominers Receives 2010 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize," Public Awareness Officers, American Mathematical Society, January 14, 2010. (The official press release announcing my Morgan Prize award.)
- "Hoopes winners recognized for outstanding scholarship," Harvard University Gazette, June 4, 2009. (An article listing the 2009 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize awardees.)
- "2005 AMS Menger Awards," in "Mathematics People," Notices of the American Mathematical Society 52(8), (2005). (I won the AMS's Karl Menger Prize at the 2005 International Science and Engineering Fair.)
Profiles:
In the Economics blogosphere:
- Michael Schapira, "EC10 and current trends in algorithmic game theory," Algorithmic Game-Theory/Economics [Blog], June 13, 2010. (Schapira cited my paper "Matching In Networks with Bilateral Contracts" as one of the three papers he especially liked at EC'10.)
- Scott Duke Kominers, "Facilitating Efficient Land Assembly," IQSS Headlines [Blog], October 28, 2009. (I wrote an expository article on my work with E. Glen Weyl for the IQSS "guest authors" series.)
- Alvin E. Roth, "Matching with contracts," Market Design [Blog], October 7, 2009. (John Hatfield and I wrote this "guest post" describing our "Many-to-Many Matching with Contracts" paper.)
On my Computational Geometry research:
- "Shapeshifting Made Easy," Science 321(5894), (2008), p. 1282. (An article on "Hinged Dissections Exist," which I co-authored with Zachary Abel et al.)
On Walk versus Wait: The Lazy Mathematician Wins:
- Clive Thompson, "The 8th Annual Year In Ideas: The Bus-Wait Formula," The New York Times Magazine, December 13, 2008. (The "Walk versus Wait" article I co-authored with Justin Chen and Robert Sinnott was featured in the 2008 "Year in Ideas!")
- Noah Bierman, "Starts and Stops: Wait/walk conundrum," The Boston Globe, February 3, 2008. (Another article on the "Walk versus Wait" article I co-authored with Justin Chen and Robert Sinnott, with a picture!)
- "Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus," New Scientist 2640, (2008), p. 18. (An article on the "Walk versus Wait" article I co-authored with Justin Chen and Robert Sinnott.)
On my Bernstein research: