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Letter to J.H. Handelman 2 March 2007
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/435892Correspondence 2007 (Handelman Executive Director of The G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, US)257861
Item: [2017.0015.00179] "Letter to J.H. Handelman 2 March 2007
Eileen Handelman
No full textSelected excerpts from the Oral History Project interview. The full transcript may be restricted. To request access please contact the Simon’s Rock College Archives. [Robert] picked up the Sunday Times, and he was looking at – of all things – the real estate section. You know, that half-page, and it had a picture of the ARC on it. Bob said to me, “Did you know there’s a college in Great Barrington?” [Laughter.] I said, “College? Never heard of it! Can’t be!” I read the article. They had written up the conversion of what was a big horse barn to make the ARC. So I thought, “Well, that’s interesting. I wonder what that’s all about.” I called up Betty Hall, and that day or the next day I went to see her. We had a talk. I had some transcripts sent to her. She hardly needed me. Here was a place with less than a hundred girls rattling around. She had somebody teaching physics. What did she need me for? But at any rate, she offered me a position. [Betty Hall] knew just exactly what she was doing. This was not a capricious thing. It was kind of characteristic of her to just ‘do.’ Get the important things right, and the rest will somehow get sorted out. I think it’s remarkable that we got through all that. There were many, many colleges, a good number, that got started in the sixties, and their only reason for existence was for young men to try and stay out of the Vietnam war. So when that was over, there’s scarcely a one that actually made it. So why did Simon’s Rock make it? It had a real reason for being, and it clearly knew what it was. With all the difficulties, it knew what it was about. So that it was almost meant to be. I think it takes a certain sense of self-confidence to have worked with Betty Hall, and a generosity of spirit that sort of looks at this woman...she accomplished a hell of a lot! Remarkable. In fact, you think of where she came from and it’s absolutely extraordinary. Give the woman some credit for it. Doreen Young was a remarkable person. An extraordinarily good teacher of art history. She had a great sense of humor. She was a close friend and confidante of Betty Hall. I think Betty used her as a sounding board very effectively. And I think she contributed, certainly, to those early ideas of Simon’s Rock. Everybody loved Doreen. You won’t find anybody from faculty or students who had anything less than an affectionate memory of her. I don’t think I would have been happy at a traditional college, with all the politics of it and whatnot. Coming to Simon’s Rock, certainly at the beginning, I was completely free to decide how I was going to teach this course, what textbook, and so on and so forth. [...] You couldn’t just decide that anyplace else. And I think other faculty felt the same sense of freedom. Not flakiness – it was rigorous stuff – but you don’t have to bore the students to death in order for a course to be serious. I think it was very different, and my sense is that that’s still true today. The students come into courses ready to be a part of something. [...] I think, in a way, that teaching at Simon’s Rock spoils you for teaching anywhere else. That’s my feeling. And I’ve talked to other younger faculty upon occasion, and still get that that same sense is still there. It’s a very special place. With all the changes, I think that spirit has become a part of the whole College, and what it is. I hope they manage to keep it!https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/sr-oral_hist/1010/thumbnail.jp
On Objects, Trauma, and Loss: An Interview with Laura Levitt
No full textTemple University. College of Liberal ArtsReligionKali Handelman interviews Laura Levitt about her new book, The Objects That Remain (Penn State University Press, 2020)
Rank of Handelman hierarchy for Max-Cut
No full textWe consider a hierarchical relaxation, called Handelman hierarchy, for a class of polynomial optimization problems. We prove that the rank of Handelman hierarchy, if applied to a standard quadratic formulation of Max-Cut, is exactly the same as the number of nodes of the underlying graph. Also we give an error bound for Handelman hierarchy, in terms of its level, applied to the Max-Cut formulation. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.de Klerk E, 2010, SIAM J OPTIMIZ, V20, P3104, DOI 10.1137/100790835CHARIKAR M, 2009, STOC09 P 2009 ACM S, P283LAURENT M, 2009, IMA V MATH, V149, P157Hong SP, 2008, DISCRETE APPL MATH, V156, P25, DOI 10.1016/j.dam.2007.07.021Cheung KKH, 2007, MATH OPER RES, V32, P88, DOI 10.1287/moor.1060.0212Cheung KKH, 2005, SIAM J OPTIMIZ, V16, P380, DOI 10.1137/040605849Laurent M, 2003, MATH OPER RES, V28, P470Lasserre JB, 2002, MATH OPER RES, V27, P347ARORA S, 2002, AN S FDN CO, P313Cook W, 2001, MATH OPER RES, V26, P19Stephen T, 1999, MATH OPER RES, V24, P1PUTINAR M, 1993, INDIANA U MATH J, V42, P969BALAS E, 1993, MATH PROGRAM, V58, P295SHERALI HD, 1992, J GLOBAL OPTIM, V2, P101LOVASZ L, 1991, SIAM J OPTIMIZ, V1, P166SCHMUDGEN K, 1991, MATH ANN, V289, P203SHERALI HD, 1990, SIAM J DISCRETE MATH, V3, P411HANDELMAN D, 1988, PAC J MATH, V132, P35
On Some Convexity Questions of Handelman
No full textWe resolve some questions posed by Handelman in 1996 concerning log convex integrable functions. In particular, we give a negative answer to a question he posed concerning the integrability of when is integrable and log convex and converges to 1.4 page
A constructive version of the Boyle–Handelman theorem on the spectra of nonnegative matrices
No full textAbstractA constructive version of the celebrated Boyle–Handelman theorem on the non-zero spectra of nonnegative matrices is presented
Lyapunov Function computation for Periodic Linear Hybrid Systems via Handelman, Polya and SoS approaches: A comparative study
No full textInternational audienceWe propose a method for the stability analysis of linear hybrid systems with periodic jumps. The method relies on the solution to polynomial inequalities based on the Handelman decomposition. Compared to existing approaches, such as sum-of-squares (SoS) and Polya's theorem, the proposed method reduces the computation time to obtain stability certificates
Some remarks on a conjecture of Boyle and Handelman
No full textAbstractBoyle and Handelman have conjectured that whenever A is an n × n nonnegative matrix with rank A ⩽ r and Perron root λ1, the inequality det(λI − tA) ⩽ λn−r(λr−λ1r) holds for all real numbers λ satisfying λ ⩾ λ1. We introduce an analogous conjecture involving nonnegative central (class) functions on the permutation group Sn. The analogue of the rank condition in this context is a condition on the support of the nonabelian Fourier transform of the central function. We are able to establish that both conjectures are true in case 2r ⩾ n
The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory
No full textThis book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conceived of the critical project in the 1930s, critical theory steadfastly opposed the mathematization of thought. Mathematics flattened thought into a dangerous positivism that led reason to the barbarism of World War II. The Mathematical Imagination challenges this narrative, showing how for other German-Jewish thinkers, such as Gershom Scholem, Franz Rosenzweig, and Siegfried Kracauer, mathematics offered metaphors to negotiate the crises of modernity during the Weimar Republic. Influential theories of poetry, messianism, and cultural critique, Handelman shows, borrowed from the philosophy of mathematics, infinitesimal calculus, and geometry in order to refashion cultural and aesthetic discourse.
The Mathematical Imagination shows how Scholem, Rosenzweig, and Kracauer’s engagement with mathematics uncovers a more capacious vision of the critical project, one with tools that can help us intervene in our digital and increasingly mathematical present.
Matthew Handelman is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Michigan State University
Pilot study with overweight youth: Greater Lowell Boys and Girls Club
No full textIn collaboration with the Lowell Community Health Center and the Lowell Boys and Girls Club, Dr. Handelman, Dr. Pbert and colleagues carried out an intervention trial, recruiting 25 overweight youth for a 5-month after-school intervention program. BMI, fasting insulin, and behavioral attitudes were monitored. There were not short-term improvements in physical health. The youth and their families had a very positive attitude toward the program, with changes in the direction of healthier diet behaviors. The social structure of this youth organization would be compatible with provision of long-term diet and life-style programs for all youth, including youth seeking to achieve normal body weight and physical activity
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