GAIN conference retrospectively Day 2
The second day at the GAIN conference was obviously the most intense day simply because it was the only full day. However, the program was well designed which minimised stress and maximised my...
View ArticleGAIN conference retrospectively Day 3
The last day of the conference was only half a day and the only one without pure Q&A sessions but more traditional panel discussions. First session The first session was another workshop with three...
View ArticleGAIN conference retrospectively conclusion
Well, this has been going on for too long… This final post should have concluded the mini-series weeks ago. Instead, it has prevented me from writing about anything else. So let me conclude with some...
View ArticleGAIN another retrospective
The people over at GAIN headquarters asked me if I could write a short piece about the conference for their newsletter. Even though I have been swamped with work (perfect proof being the lack of...
View ArticleIntroducing mathblogging.org
I think I mentioned at some point that I had started a secret little project a few months ago. Well, Felix, Fred and I have decided that the new year should be plenty of reason to put some more …
View ArticleThe candy stores of academia
Over lunch I had one of those really excellent discussions you can enjoy with grad students at the University of Michigan. Among a thousand interesting topics we talked about the question of career...
View ArticlePunkmath, annotatr and gender discussions
So last week was pretty abysmal as I spent most of the time in bed with a cold like I haven’t had in a while. Since this led to a major shutdown of my brain I failed to do anything …
View Articlegender discussion at quomodocumque
Since I had promised, let me post the comment I finally added to the discussion at quomodocumque I had mentioned before. Also: note the link to Ivelisse Rubio’s talk in there — it’s finally online! I...
View ArticleYoung Set Theory Workshop 2011
It’s been a while. In case you were wondering where the heck I have been these last two months, check out mathblogging.org and our blog at wordpress.com. The last week I was able to spend at the Young...
View ArticleWhy I back Relatively Prime
On of the pleasures of running mathblogging.org is that you get to find out about immensely creative people working on new ways to make use of the web for mathematics. ACME Science Only a few weeks...
View ArticleDear Keith Devlin
Dear Keith Devlin, I love your work. Really, I do. So please don’t take this rant the wrong way. I promise I’ll shut up after this one rant, I just really need to get this off my chest. #begin rant…
View ArticleThe Mathematician’s Homepage — can it be more?
Yesterday I went on a rant about Keith Devlin’s homepage and twitter. That was, like all rants, a little unfair on him. I guess idols are always more disappointing. However, although the rant was...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name
This is a slightly idolized recollection how we came to adopt the name Booles’ Rings. When Sam and I began looking seriously into the idea of wordpress for mathematicians we also started thinking...
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Formal proofs are our democracy
Reading papers can lead to horrible acts. Today, I felt like mutilating a famous quote. Many forms of communicating mathematics have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one...
View ArticleThe recent publishing debate — a timeline
In the last 3 weeks I have written a couple of drafts about the debate that finally hit the mathematical blogosphere through Tim Gowers’s blog (I don’t know how much he is aware of similar, ongoing...
View ArticleThe recent publishing debate — Nisan’s posts
The original post was getting longer and longer so I split it up. To refresh your memory, Nov 2 Algorithmic Game-Theory/Economics // Noam Nisan: The problem with journals Nov 3 Algorithmic...
View ArticleThe recent publishing debate — The economic power of publishers
I have been trying to find the time to continue my posts on the publishing debate, discussing the other posts from the original timeline. Suffice it to say, I’ve not yet given up getting around to it…...
View ArticleThe recent publishing debate — the IMU’s blog continues
My last post has seen quite a lot of visitors (my stats look miserable now that there was such a spike…). But hardly anybody left a comment (thanks to those who did — much appreciated!). Did people...
View ArticleRepresenting Booles’ Rings at Science Online 2012
At the end of January, I’ll be at Scio12! Science Online is that super awesomesauce (un)conference where all the hipster science bloggers hang out — and also those fantastic little companies working on...
View ArticleAfter the common room, how about the seminar room?
The most impressive community on the (specifically mathematical) intertubes is MathOverflow. Not only because François is one of the moderators and Joel is the #1 power user or because it has...
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