Eight members of the University of Chicago faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. They include Profs. Zeresenay Alemseged, Benson Farb, Jeffrey Hubbe
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University News Office
April 23, 2021
Professor Anup Malani was among eight members of the University of Chicago faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
Malani is the Law School s Lee and Brena Freeman Professor and a professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine. He conducts research in law and economics, health economics and development economics. His research in law and economics focuses on judicial behavior, methods for measuring the contents and causal impact of laws, and the legal implications of blockchain. His health economics research focuses on control of infectious diseases (including coronaviruses and influenza), the value of medical innovation and health care insurance, conflicts of interest in medicine and placebo effects. In development economics, Malani is involved in multiple projects in India focused on health care financing and the quality of life in slums.
Art by Karen Lin.
On a snowy February evening, thirty undergraduates gather inside a brightly lit classroom on the first floor of Leet Oliver Memorial Hall. At the front of the room is Hee Oh, the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics at Yale, drawing crisp white circles on the board with a brand-new stick of Hagoromo chalk. By the time she turns around, she has traced out three perfect circles, each touching two others at a single point.
Oh studies Apollonian circle packings, which are created by filling the space between three mutually tangent circles with successively smaller tangent circles. As she draws the smaller circles on the board, she talks about her fascination with circle packings, connecting them to centuries-old theorems of Greek geometers and to recent developments in hyperbolic geometry. The students listen with undivided attention, captivated by her every word.