Archive for November, 2010
Just came across this, from my old REU buddy Sarah-Marie Belcastro. I’m old enough to remember when Hampshire, Ross’s program at OSU, and (to some extent) Math Olympiad training were the only places a high school kid could get formal training in really advanced math. Hampshire has done a lot of good for a lot [...]
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Tags: hampshire, hcssim, yellow pigs, yp17
Quomodocunquizing
The name of this blog, almost featured in the New York Times. (Thanks to Terry for pointing this out.)
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Tags: nyt, words
The University of Wisconsin, like all big public institutions, faces a future of declining state support. And, like all big public institutions, we have to figure out how to keep doing our jobs despite that. Chancellor Martin’s proposal is a New Badger Partnership, under which UW would be allowed to set its own tuition, as [...]
Filed under: academia, college, economics, education, madison, politics | 8 Comments
Tags: biddy martin, new badger partnership, uw, uw-madison, wisconsin
The paper “Modeling λ-invariants by p-adic random matrices,” with Akshay Venkatesh and Sonal Jain, just got accepted by Comm. Pure. Appl. Math. But I forgot to blog about it when we finished it! (I was a little busy at the time with the change in my personal circumstances.) Anyway, here’s the idea. As I’ve already [...]
Filed under: math, papers | 1 Comment
Tags: akshay venkatesh, algebraic number theory, class group, experiments, iwasawa theory, sonal jain, subliminal hiring suggestions
Why was 6 afraid of 7?
Because 7 had exotic differentiable structures!
Filed under: math | 3 Comments
Tags: i'll be here all week, try the veal
How to ruin your Thanksgiving
Eat this week’s magnificent Ian’s special: pizza with turkey, cranberries, green beans, and fried onions. It’s very unlikely your family will serve you anything as good as this.
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Tags: ian's, ian's pizza, pizza
Here’s something I didn’t know. Suppose we consider the space K of “long knots” — embeddings of R into R^3, which send t to (t,0,0) whenever |t| > 1. By closing up the large |t| ends of the arc, you get a knot in S^3. The path component of K containing the embedding of R [...]
Filed under: math | 2 Comments
Tags: allen hatfher, greg buck, knot theory, knots, rope, topology
Something fast to eat on cold nights: some shredded cabbage (in a bag is fine) 2-3 apples mustard (we use spicy brown) red wine vinegar Procedure: put some olive oil in a pan, chop the apples and fry them with a little pepper. Throw the shredded cabbage on top of it and fry further. Put [...]
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Well, we have to talk about the election a little, right? Governor-elect Scott Walker today, telling the regents of UW not to expect any increase in allocation from the state: “It isn’t just always about more money. It’s going to be about finding ways to take the dollar we have, finding ways with flexibility, innovation [...]
Filed under: academia, education, madison, news, politics | 19 Comments
Tags: biddy martin, scott walker, uw, uw-madison, wisconsin
As I write this, about 4.7 million Americans have clicked the “I voted” button on Facebook. As best I can tell, there are between 125 and 150 million Facebook accounts in the US, and about 90% of these belong to people of voting age. Of course, lots of people have Facebook accounts but don’t use [...]
Filed under: bad statistics, news, offhand, politics | 4 Comments
Tags: 2010 election, facebook
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