Ted Hill News

Upcoming Travel & Talks

SIMMAC XVIII International Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to the Sciences, University of Costa Rica, February 21-24, 2012
Mexican Mathematics Research Center (CIMAT), Feb/Mar 2012
Lecture on "Experiences in the USSR", San Jose State University, May 1, 2012

Recent Projects

Benford Online Bibliography (www.benfordonline.net) - a free searchable online bibliographic database on Benford's Law (in collaboration with A. Berger).

Recent Publications

Gender Gaps in Science: The Creativity Factor (with E. Rogers), accepted for publication in The Mathematical Intelligencer. [ARXIV-PDF]
The kilogram in the "New SI" (with A. Censullo and J. Miller), accepted for publication in Chemistry International. [PDF n/a]
A basic theory of Benford's Law (with A. Berger), Probability Surveys 8, 1-126 (2011). [PDF]
Unresolved concerns about the "new SI" (with J. Miller and A. Censullo), Accreditation and Quality Assurance 16 (12), 657-658 (2011). [SPRINGER-PDF]
Criticisms of the proposed "New SI". Accreditation and Quality Assurance 16 (8-9), 471-472 (2011). [PDF]
How to combine independent data sets for the same quantity (with J. Miller), Chaos 21(3) (2011) [CHAOS-PDF] [ARXIV-PDF].
A Stronger Conclusion to the Classical Ham Sandwich Theorem (with J.H. Elton), European Journal of Combinatorics 32 (2011) pp. 657-661. [PDF]
Towards a Better Definition of the Kilogram (with J. Miller and A. Censullo), Metrologia 48 (2011) pp. 83-86. [PDF]
Benford's Law Strikes Back: No Simple Explanation in Sight for Mathematical Gem (with A. Berger), The Mathematical Intelligencer Vol. 33, No. 1, 2011, pp. 85-91 . [PDF]
Conflations of Probability Distributions, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 363, No. 6, June 2011, pp. 3351-3372. [AMS-PDF] [ARXIV-PDF]
Knowing When to Stop, adaptation of American Scientist article selected as a chapter in The Best Writing in Mathematics 2010, M. Pitici (ed.), Princeton University Press, pp. 145-157, 2011.
Fundamental Flaws in Feller's Classical Derivation of Benford's Law (with A. Berger), Mathematics arXiv, posted May 14, 2010. [ARXIV-PDF]
Cutting Cakes Carefully (with K.E. Morrison), The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 41, No. 4, September 2010 pp. 281-288. [PDF]
Obituary for Lester E. Dubins (with D. Gilat and B. Sudderth), Bernoulli News, May 2010. [PDF]
Finite-state Markov Chains obey Benford's Law (with B. Kaynar, A. Berger, and A. Ridder), SIAM J. Matrix. Anal. Appl., Vol. 32(3), pp. 665-684, 2011. [ARXIV-PDF]
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, online publication on scribd.com, posted Sep 16, 2009. [SCRIBD-PDF]
Knowing When to Stop, American Scientist 97, 126-133 (2009). French translation in Pour la Science, No. 381, July 2009.
Counterexamples in the theory of fair division (with K.E. Morrison), Mathematics arXiv, posted Jan 15, 2009. [ARXIV-PDF]

Recent Publicity

The creativity factor by Charles Day, online editor, Physics Today, Jan 11, 2012.
Listed in 2011 Marquis Who's Who in America. (Subscription required.)
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.

Recent Travel & Talks

Seminar, ID Analytics, San Diego, CA, Oct 12, 2011.
Lecture, Math Sciences Dept, United States Military Academy, West Point, Sep 22, 2011.
Lecture, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, June 2011.
Free University of Amsterdam and CWI Amsterdam, Jun 2011.
Mexican Mathematics Research Center (CIMAT), Mar 2011.
Seminar, Dept. of Statistics and Geoeconomics, Univ. of Rome-La Sapienza, Nov 9, 2010.
Seminar, Faculty of Economics, LUISS Guido Carli Univ., Rome, Oct 21, 2010.
Visiting Professor, LUISS Guido Carli Univ., Rome, Oct 16-Nov 18, 2010.
Invited guest, Nomenclature Committee, Amer. Chemical Soc. meeting, Boston, MA, Aug 2010.
Lecture, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, June 2010.
Research visit, Free University of Amsterdam, Jun 2010.
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.