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Courtney has a new Brown Sharpie comic regarding Ben and myself. See previous post for a bit of elaboration.

We have a guest speaker named Gerald Beer coming in about a week and half, and one of our professors wrote a list of things we need to cover before he arrives.
1.) Normed Spaces
2.) Attouch-Wets < X,d>
4.) Countability
5.) Seperability
This list is copied word-for-word, number-for-number from the board. Ironic that #4 is countability.

Courtney wrote a math haiku, expressing the Newton polytope of the product ideal of two monomial ideals I and J in terms of the Newton polytopes of I and J (denoted K(I) and K(J)):
K of I times J
Equals K(I) plus K(J)
Minkowskily so.
Zach (our professor), responded by shaking his head, sighing, and saying “Nothing good can […]

This morning we took a brief break during our algebra lecture. As we were wrapping it up and getting back to lecture, there was a bit of an outburst in the back of the room. Evidently a math joke had been cracked, and the jokester did not want to repeat it. After some prodding, Alex […]

Well, I’ve been in Nebraska for a little over a month now, and things are going all right.  Lincoln is great. I recently started the Nebraska IMMERSE program, which has been an adventure, to say the least. I just need to remember that IMMERSE is not identical to grad school, and so if I’m sick […]

Well, I defended my thesis today. It went well. I spoke for about fifty minutes to most of the math faculty and a wonderful turnout of friends. After the non-committee members left, I took a few questions from my committee, left the room, and they talked for a few minutes. Then […]

Jack sent this over. Maybe you’ve seen it, but I hadn’t. I laughed the whole way through.
I wonder if this is how my thesis defense will sound to the ordinary person on Monday.
Hilarious.
Edit: Apparently the paper is available here.
Another edit: The powerpoint used in the talk is here.

So, I haven’t seen any recaps posted on the web yet, and we don’t get any Minnesota High School Basketball Tournament games here in Vermillion, but I hear it was exciting. 50-49, but no overtime. However, my brother was at the game, and sent me a text message saying that Steph Kocourek made a 3-pointer […]

I received word approximately 37 minutes ago that I’ll be offered financial support at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
I don’t know if I’ll take this offer or not, but I am strongly considering it. I’ll be going down for their graduate recruitment weekend February 23-24 and will evaluate what I see.
But it’s nice to know that […]