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- 2022/Aug: Penn Gazette article on flipped calculus courses at Penn.
- 2022/June: Penn student improves a Ghrist calculus video with addition of beatsaber: really, best level ever, with bonus material including strawberry fields and sheaves.
- 2022/May: Ghrist helps generate new tools for modelling opinion dynamics over networks.
- 2022/Apr: Ghrist wins the Trustees Council for Penn Women Advising Award...
- 2022/Feb: Ghrist starts an NSFW ASMR youtube channel... hmmm...
- 2021/Oct: Ghrist has strong opinions about sheaves...
- 2020/Aug: Kevin Knudson and I debate about What Makes Mathematics Beautiful (via Pairagraph)
- 2019/Nov: Ghrist makes an appearance in the fabled History of David Rittenhouse Labs at Penn
- 2019/Sept: Rare video of Ghrist being a pretentious art-poseur and explaining the hidden secrets of the EAT text.
- 2019/Mar: Yay! It's My Favorite Theorem! WOO!
- 2018/Aug: Ghrist is faculty co-directorof the Penn First Plus Program for 1st-generation and/or low-income students.
- 2016/Sep: Ghrist gives a talk on topological data analysis in 2009. Seven years later, and it is "especially burned into my brain" : then again, the author no longer does mathematics, so... cavete.
- 2016/May: Ghrist takes break from topology to become analyst (of mythopoeic arthurian legends)
- 2016/Apr: Ghrist speaks at the Philadelphia Science Festival "Science: 2066" program on Topological Data Analysis.
- 2016/Feb: Ghrist is awarded the 2016 James Crawford Prize in Teaching by the MAA EPaDel
- 2016/Feb: Ghrist really really hopes to make Mathematics fun. Don't give up, Ghrist! Don't! Give! Up! (the Daily Pennsylvanian)
- 2016/Feb: `I know, right?' Ghrist says, rolling his eyes (the Daily Pennsylvanian)
- 2016/Jan: Ghrist reaches the masses with complicated Mathematics. (Penn News)
- 2016/Jan: Ghrist, leader in topology, changes the face! -- of Mathematics education... (Philly Voice)
- 2015/Sep: This professor can teach anyone calculus with his mad illustration skillz!!! by the MadStone at GIZMODO.
- 2015/Jul: Ghrist has been named a National Security Science & Engineering Faculty Fellow by the US Department of Defense (now called the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship).
- 2015/Jul: Article on Ghrist's research & fashion sense in the Penn Gazette
- 2015/Mar: Ghrist helps engineering students kick butt.
- 2014/Nov: Ghrist gives the Gauss Lecture in Karlruhe, Germany.
- 2014/Oct: Article in MAA Focus Magazine on Ghrist's calculus reform.
- 2014/May: Ghrist lobbied on Capitol Hill on behalf of NSF mathematics funding.
- 2013/May: The Chronicle of Higher Education features Ghrist in a sensationalist bid to stir up controversy about MOOCs.
- 2013/Jan: Ghrist's Coursera Calculus featured in the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer.
- 2013/Jan: Ghrist awarded the Chauvenet Prize for mathematical writing.
- 2012/Dec: Coursera Calculus featured on boingboing and the today show...
- 2012/Aug: Ghrist taught a mini-course on symmetry groups to 7th-8th grade girls at Penn's GEMS Program
- 2012/May: Ghrist will be teaching Calculus: Single Variable via Coursera starting
January 7, 2013. Sign up for free!
- 2012/May: Ghrist delivered the Vincent Meyer Lecture at the Technion on Topological Tools for Signals and Sensors. watch the video!
- 2012/Jan: Expository talk "Music of the Spheres" for Penn's Engaging Minds program at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons: watch the video!
- 2011/Dec: article about Ghrist's teaching in Penn Engineering News Magazine (pdf, see page 12, or see a short summary in html)
- 2011/Aug: Ghrist talks on "Putting Topology to Work" at the Young Mathematicians' Conference (link has video of talk / slides)
- 2011/July: Nice writeup about the F(unny)L(ittle)C(alculus)T(ext) at Penn's Under the Button
- 2011/Apr: Ghrist gives a public lecture on the Mathematics of Holes at the 2011 International Science Festival in Edinburgh
- 2011/Mar: President Gutmann mentions Ghrist's involvement in Penn's new Integrated Studies Program for undergraduates.
- 2011/Mar: Ghrist speaks to high school students @ UTexas' Saturday Morning Math Group on "T/F : True/False : Twitter/Facebook : the Mathematics of Social Circuits" (link is to pdf flier)
- 2011/Jan: Ghrist speaks on the Beauty and Utility of Mathematics at the British Museum in London
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2010/Dec: Ghrist (and his calculus class) appear briefly in a Penn promotional video
- 2010/Sep: Ghrist interviewed by John D. Cook
- 2010/Jun: Ghrist gives lecture series at Colorado College [video1][video2][video3]
- 2010/Apr: Ghrist is the 8th Norbert Wiener lecturer at Tufts University
- 2009/Nov: Ghrist delivers a brief address to Presdient Gutmann & the University Council on Mathematics & its Applications
- 2009/ Oct: Ghrist is the innaugural Milton Wing lecturer at Rochester University
- 2009/Sep: Ghrist delivers a 60 second lecture at Penn on "Why is Mathematics Useful?"
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2009/Jan: Ghrist gives a public lecture on sensor networks at the IMA in Minneapolis [video]
- 2008/Sep: Beautifully-written article on a Paradiso of Mathematics
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2007/Oct: Ghrist is named a Richard & Margaret Romano Professional Scholar by the University of Illinois
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2007/Jun: Ghrist delivers a public lecture at the National University of Singapore
- 2007/May: Article in Science News on topological sensor networks
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February 2007: Ghrist named as a UIUC "University Scholar" for 2006-2008
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2007/Jan: Ghrist to speak at the "Current Events Bulletin" at the AMS National Meeting in New Orleans
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2006/Oct: Article in Information Week discusses sensor networks, mathematics, and algorithms. If you prefer Italian, check this out...
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2006/May: Ghrist to speak at the ICM in Madrid, Spain
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