A week or so ago I asked Math graduate students the following: The Climate, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the department of mathematics wants to ask the Office for Access and Equity to conduct mandatory in-person anti-sexual harassment training workshops. For now, it is intended just for the incoming graduate students in our program. This …
news of the day: the mandatory workshop poll results Read More »
Update: the most current (as of 9.14.23) construction schedule. The news of the day (8.11.23) was this cheerful email from the the LAS, – Altgeld and Illini Hall Project: Restoring Altgeld’s glow, making space for connection, and preserving the sound of the chimes. If anything could jolt a Math department member out of the pre-semester …
A few years ago, I suggested to Daniel Feshbach at Cynthia Sung‘s lab to play with a curved origami design for a self-folding walking robot. He took off with that raw idea, and brought an extraordinary amount of engineering insight and ingenuity… (Here’s one of the first tries.) Now, the CurveQuad (I like to call …
2. Around Arrow published, – a riveting tale of cold war planning, trans-Atlantic rivalries, RAND corporation characters, lack of social networks in 1950-ies, and the ensuing non-emergence of applied topology half a century ago, – all there. No, really.
schedule – here.
American Mathematical Society is the dominant professional organization for mathematicians working in research-active places, – mostly, departments of mathematics with PhD programs. This is a large organization, counting around 30 thousands members (this includes however folks outside of the US, retirees, and many others). AMS is doing many things that other professional organizations do: it …
The recipients for AY 23-24 are:
What happens if you feed ChatGPT some logical puzzles? I took one, from Smullyan’s textbook on basics of mathematical logics. It is easy to solve. Predictably, ChatGPT failed to do so, but in rather instructive ways. Here’s the puzzle: [On an island, the inhabitants are either knights, and always tell the truth, or knaves, and …
A survey of the remunerations of graduate students in math PhD programs in public universities initiated and conducted by Hans Christianson, the Director of Graduate Studies at UNC at Chapel Hill is in, and the results are not hugely surprising. With a few exceptions, the (adjusted for cost of living) yearly stipends are pretty comparable, …
