| Subject: message from Pamela Gann, contributor to "University Presidents As Moral Leaders" |
| From: Jonathan Farley <lattice.theory@gmail.com> |
| Date: 10/16/09, 11:10 |
| To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Dear June,
Is this a graduate?
Best,
Pam
From: Jonathan Farley [mailto:lattice.theory@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:03 PM
To: Gann, Pamela
Subject: thank you
Dear Dr. Gann,
I believe we met in September 2003 at the memorial service for Orme Phelps. Since that time I have received a number of awards and honors (see the bio below and the attached article), including being named by Seed Magazine one of "15 people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005". Next year I will be at Caltech.
But I am writing about another matter. I note that you have contributed to a book, "University Presidents As Moral Leaders." It appears you wrote a response to Vanderbilt University Chancellor Gordon Gee's depiction of an episode of racism at Vanderbilt University, where I received numerous death threats by supporters of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan as well as attacks from Gordon Gee and the Vanderbilt administration. Needless to say, Gordon Gee did not mention this in his (defamatory) essay. I was wondering if you were aware of the background to this. I would be happy to speak with you about this.
Regards,
Jonathan Farley, D.Phil. (Oxford), A.B. summa cum laude (Harvard)
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
The University of the West Indies
Mona, Kingston 7
Jamaica, West Indies
876 446 3184
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:21:10 -0700
From: "Gann, Pamela" <pamela.gann@claremontmckenna.edu>
To: "'lattice@math.mit.edu'" <lattice@math.mit.edu>
Cc: "Ascher, William" < william.ascher@claremontmckenna.edu>
Subject: your letter
Dear Dr. Farley,
Thank you for your recent letter, inquiring about a possible position at
Claremont McKenna College.
I have forwarded your letter to the Dean of the Faculty, William Ascher,
because it is his office that works with our departments on their faculty
hiring plans.
I am pleased to learn that you attended the memorial service for Professor
Orme Phelps. Thank you for representing your family on that occasion. He
was indeed a very special person and member of this community.
With best regards.
Pamela Gann
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Dr. Jonathan David Farley is Professor of Mathematics at the University of the West Indies (Jamaica ). He has formerly been a Science Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and a professor at MIT. Seed Magazine has named him one of "15 people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005."
He is the 2004 recipient of the Harvard Foundation's Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award, a medal presented on behalf of the president of Harvard University in recognition of "outstanding achievements and contributions in the field of mathematics." Professor Farley graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1991 with the second-highest grade point average in his graduating class. (He earned 29 A's and 3 A-'s.) He obtained his doctorate in mathematics from Oxford University in 1995, after winning Oxford's highest mathematics awards, the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson University Prize, in 1994.
In 2001-2002, Dr. Farley was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to the United Kingdom. He was one of only four Americans to win this award in 2001-2002.
In 2001, the leading African-American magazine Ebony named Dr. Farley a "Leader of the Future." He has also been profiled in Jet Magazine, in Upscale Magazine, and on the cover of The Crisis Magazine.
Professor Farley's fields of interest are lattice theory and the theory of ordered sets. His mathematical accomplishments in the last year include the solution to a problem posed by MIT professor Richard Stanley that had remained unsolved since 1981, a problem in "transversal theory" (posed by Rado) that had remained unsolved for 33 years, and a problem from the 1984 Banff Conference on Graphs and Order that had remained unsolved for 22 years. Some of Dr. Farley's previous mathematical accomplishments include the resolution of a conjecture posed by Richard Stanley in 1975, and the solution to some problems in lattice theory that remained unsolved for 34 years.
Professor Farley's work applying mathematics to counterterrorism has been profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education, in Science News Online, in The Economist Magazine, in USA Today and Associated Press newspaper articles across the United States, on Fox News Television, and on Air America Radio. He is Chief Scientist of Phoenix Mathematics, Inc., a company that develops mathematical solutions to homeland security-related problems.
Professor Farley has written for Time Magazine, the New York Times, The Guardian (one of Britain's major newspapers), the premiere black women's magazine Essence, and the hip hop magazine The Source. Dr. Farley has been an invited guest on BBC World News Television and National Public Radio.
Dr. Farley is co-founder of Hollywood Math and Science Film Consulting (www.hollywoodmath.com). This company has received coverage in the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Chicago Tribune, many other papers in the United States and Canada, the Daily Telegraph (the British newspaper with the highest circulation), the Times Higher Education Supplement in Great Britain, BBC Radio's "Midweek" program, Reader's Digest in Canada, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, Comcast's Nitebeat (which reaches 6.2 million homes) and numerous websites, including the main page of Yahoo.com and Slashdot.
The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts (home to both Harvard University and MIT) officially declared March 19, 2004 to be "Dr. Jonathan David Farley Day".