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Benasque
While I wait for my brain strings to settle after a long summer shuttling about I make a quick core dump before it’s all gone. I spent two weeks in Benasque, Spain for the workshop P-adic analysis,...
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Teaching Technology
I started teaching this semester using moodle. I am pretty happy with it. I think there is a lot of potential to make teaching more productive. In the process I got really interested in the whole issue...
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Back and short
I’ve lived in the US now for over 22 years. I have encountered two dollar bills exactly three times (I kept them all). The first time was around Harvard Square as change in a store. It was so strange....
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Limiting distribution of Betti numbers I
I gave a talk in the algebra seminar at Georgia Tech on April 11, 2011 with this title. The basic question is this: how are the Betti numbers of a discrete family of algebraic varieties distributed as...
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What’s new in the world of addition?
I gave a talk at the Mathematics Teachers’ Circle of Austin on the distribution of carries in adding numbers in a given base. (The full title “Dizzying the memory of arithmetic” is supposed to be a...
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Taxi rides
I am not sure if it is an Austin phenomenon or not but I have had a few interesting taxi rides back and forth to the airport over the years. I’ll leave aside the late night taxi ride where the driver,...
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Workshop at ICTP June 2012
I am co-organizing a two-week activity this June at ICTP. The general theme of the school is that of computational algebra and number theory. The second week the school will include a more specific AIM...
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What I miss
Like a teenager keeping a journal I note in shame that my last post here is from 2012. Since then I have moved to Trieste, Italy, taking a job at the ICTP: Abdus Salam International Centre for...
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From here to there
One of the odd perks of getting old is that one can look back to the distant past and wonder with cold detachment just who the hell we were. As a kid I was obsessed with cryptography and secret...
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Let’s talk figs. There was a fig tree near the main house “Villa Isaura” in Carlos Paz, Cordoba where I spent many a holiday as a kid. I remember breaking off leaves to see and feel the white sticky...
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