JOHN CUMMINGS

Jay Cummings: Research Statement

My research has touched many areas of combinatorics, including enumerative, algebraic, spectral, extremal and probabilistic. The projects below include finding the stationary distribution of a random coloring procedure, pursuing new directions in the math of juggling, working with undergraduates on Ramsey theory, and studying a pair of topics from spectral graph theory. I have mentored undergra...

Stephen Cummings And

philosophy behind Images of Strategy are outlined. We argue that the conventional twentieth-century history of management and strategy leads us to unquestioningly assume that organizations are, for all people at all times, triangular hierarchies; that strategy is enacted by ‘the men at the top’, and that it is about longterm planning, directing, organizing and controlling. At a philosophical le...

From closed ranks to open doors: Elaine and John Cummings' mental health education experiment in 1950s Saskatchewan.

During late 1951 and early 1952, married couple, social biologist Elaine Cumming and psychiatrist John Cumming, led a mental health education experiment in Indian Head, Saskatchewan. The study, which was intended to inform strategies toward deinstitutionalization, sought to determine if attitudes regarding mental illness could be changed through commonly used educational practices. It was shape...

Reaction to Cummings on Addiction

Cummings (December 1979) is to be vigorously applauded for bringing to light the seriousness of the drug and alcohol addiction problem and the inability of traditional psychotherapy to deal with this problem effectively. Those of us who work daily with addicted people hold most of Cummings's statements to be self-evident, but we suffer frequent frustration at the apparent unwillingness of other...

Ecology. 3rd Edition. Benjamin Cummings.