Ted Hill News

Released July 2009 - a free searchable online bibliographic database on Benford's Law (in collaboration with A. Berger): www.benfordonline.net.

Obituary for Lester E. Dubins, by D. Gilat, T.P. Hill and B. Sudderth, Bernoulli News, May 2010.
"Finite-state Markov Chains obey Benford's Law", by B. Kaynar, A. Berger, T. P. Hill and A. Ridder, Mathematics arXiv, posted Mar 2, 2010, submitted for publication.
"Conflations of Probability Distributions", by T.P. Hill, Mathematics arXiv, posted Aug 13, 2008. Accepted for publication in Transactions of the American Math Society in 2010.
"Hoisting the Black Flag", Letter to the Editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 57:01, January 2010, p. 7.
"How to Publish Counterexamples in 1 2 3 Easy Steps", by T.P. Hill, online publication on scribd.com, posted Sep 16, 2009.
"Knowing When to Stop", by T.P. Hill, American Scientist 97, 126-133 (2009). For French translation, see cover story in the July 2009 issue of Pour la Science.
"An Optimal method to combine data from different experiments", by T.P. Hill and J. Miller, Physics arXiv, posted Jan 30, 2009.
"A Stronger Conclusion to the Classical Ham Sandwich Theorem", by J.H. Elton and T.P. Hill, Mathematics arXiv, posted Jan 16, 2009.
"Counterexamples in the theory of fair division", by T.P. Hill and K.E. Morrison, Mathematics arXiv, posted Jan 15, 2009.
"Scale-distortion inequalities for finite data sets", by A. Berger, T.P. Hill, and K. Morrison, Journal of Theoretical Probability 21, 97-117 (2008).

"Why the World is Losing Weight" by Mary Bowers, The Caravan, Sep 1-15, 2009.
Mathematical Digest by Allyn Jackson, AMS Math in the Media 2009.
"Defining a New Kilogram" by S. Spicer, Water Environment Laboratory Solutions, Vol. 15, No. 4, August/September 2008.

Research Scholars in Residence Evening Lecture, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, April 1, 2010.
The Math Colloquium, San Jose State University, CA, March 10, 2010.
Bay Area Mathematics Adventures Lecture, San Jose, CA, March 10, 2010.
SIMMAC XVII International Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to the Sciences, University of Costa Rica, February 16-19, 2010.
Mathematics Colloquium, University of Nevada, Reno, February 4, 2010.
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, July/August 2009.
Research visit, Free University of Amsterdam, Jun/Jul 2009.
"Conflations of Probability Distributions", Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, June 24, 2009.
"Five Winning Stories: When to Gamble if You Must", RAMS (Retired Active Men's Society) Lecture, San Luis Obispo, May 2009.
Dynamics and Statistics of Spatially Extended Systems Workshop (dedicated to 60th birthday of Leonid Bunimovich), Banff International Research Station, Jan 18-23, 2009.