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1A still rules

A recent announcement on Truth Social reads: “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests, Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!” As usual, this is […]

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a tale of two whiskers

Ali Belabbas proved the following clever result. Consider a Riemannian manifold \(M^m\), and the gradient flow of a generic function \(f\). Then the \(\omega\)-limit of a trajectory starting near a local maxima (i.e., with the starting point drawn from a density \(\lambda^mf(\lambda x)dx\)), consists, with asymptotic certainty as \(\lambda\to\infty\), of at most two local minima

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news of the day: the mandatory workshop poll results

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

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