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:
- "Scholar Spotlight: Scott Kominers," Becker Friedman Institute Economic News, July 26, 2012.
- Jamie Lockwood, "The View from Yahoo! Labs' Key Scientific Challenges Summit 2010," Yodel Anecdotal [Yahoo! Corporation Blog], September 9, 2010. (I was interviewed for a report on the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Summit.)
- Koning Shen, "HCURA Student Research Spotlight: Scott Duke Kominers 2009, Mathematics and Economics," Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association Newsletter, (Summer 2008), pp. 1-2. (A survey of my summer 2008 research work.)
- "Defining Moments of Discovery and Design: The Winning PRISE Experience," YARD Magazine, (Fall/Winter 2006). (An article (from a Harvard Alumni Development publication) about PRISE 2006 featuring a nice photo of me reading Ebeling's Lattices and Codes.)
On my Conferences:
In the Economics and Business blogospheres:
- Alvin E. Roth, "Scott Kominers on designing matching markets for diversity," Market Design [Blog], November 27, 2012. (A post discussing my job market paper.)
- "Customer Service's Brightest (and Bleakest) Companies of 2011," Help Scout [Blog], January 4, 2012. (Commentary drawing upon my joint article about the GoDaddy customer revolt.)
- Alvin E. Roth, "The underlying structure of matching models: Scott Kominers," Market Design [Blog], April 27, 2011. (A post commemorating my PhD defense.)
- Sean Silverthorne, "How Groupon Can Help (or Hurt) Your Business," CBS BNET [Blog], January 13, 2011. (A discussion of my joint paper on Groupon, "To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts.")
- Benjamin G. Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers, "To Groupon or Not To Groupon: New Research on Voucher Profitability," Harvard Business Review [Blog], January 12, 2011. (Edelman, Jaffe, and I discuss our joint paper, "To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts.")
- Carmen Nobel, "Is Groupon Good for Retailers?," HBS Working Knowledge, January 10, 2011. (A discussion of my joint paper on Groupon, "To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts.")
- 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 Success with Science: The Winners' Guide to High School Research:
- Scott Duke Kominers. Sharing the fun of research. Harvard University Gazette, October 27, 2011.
- Caroline P. Davis, "Harvard Students, Alumni Publish Guide to Science Research," The Harvard Crimson, April 27, 2011. (A Crimson article on Success with Science.)
- James M. Gentile, "Harvard Students Promote Science Education in New Book," The Huffington Post, January 31, 2011. (An article by the president of Research Corporation for Science Advancement announcing Success with Science.)
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: