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 […]
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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.
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The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is the leading professional organization for mathematicians primarily based in research-focused institutions, particularly departments of mathematics with PhD programs. It is a large organization with approximately 30,000 members, including international members, retirees, and others. The AMS engages in many activities typical of professional organizations: it operates a publishing house, serves
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The recipients for AY 23-24 are:
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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,
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This visual continues the exploration started here. I used the dataset of MathSciNet records of the publications by department members, collected by the IGL participants. Each article reviewed by MSN carries a few MSC codes, roughly classifying them. I used these codes to create a sankey diagram, showing who published in what area. A few
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\(\def\Real{\mathbb{R}}\def\tree{\mathcal{T}}\) Consider a path metric space \(M\) and a continuous function \(f:M\to \Real\). For simplicity, all such pairs here will have sublevel sets of \(f\) compact (so that the function is bounded from below). Then one can form the so-called merge tree (see, e.g. here, for motivation, and some history), a new topological space (let’s
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