If you blog using WordPress, you may have heard of Jetpack. WordPress’ website says,
Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.
It provides such capabilities as Subscriptions, Sharing, Statistics, Contact Forms, LaTeX, etc. I really enjoy this plugin; however, I’m not sure how I feel about its description of the LaTeX capabilities. As seen in the screenshot, they describe it as Continue reading
You could also call this article “Why I love the Grad Topology Seminar.”
At UCSB we have had a Grad Topology Seminar since the 70’s. It’s run by graduate students, and only graduate students and postdocs attend. We spend the fall giving talks about our research, prepping for advancement talks and conferences. In the winter and spring we usually select papers or books and work through them together. We either read and work through problems together, or speakers are assigned for each week. Here are some of the benefits as I see it: Continue reading
The May 2012 Notices of The American Mathematical Society is now available. Visit http://www.ams.org/notices/201205/ to see the table of contents.
Make sure you don’t miss the schedule of upcoming conferences listed at the end of the document!
In Peter Casazza’s note “A Mathematician’s Survival Guide” he comments on many stereotypes that mathematicians have both within the community and to the outside world. While it is 18 pages long, the note is a well written and a fairly quick read (definitely recommended!). You can read it here: http://www.math.missouri.edu/~pete/pdf/teach/140.MAA.pdf.
Some points that I found particularly interesting were: Continue reading
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Some people think of summer as a time for rest and relaxation; I’m the type of person that has to have something (academically) to do during the summer. As an undergraduate, I had the luxury of taking 2-4 summer courses. Now that I’m a graduate student, I don’t have that luxury anymore. However, there are some opportunities for graduate students that take place during the summer. Last year around this time, I found out about the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) program that was offered through the NSF. It gives graduate students in the STEM fields an opportunity to do research for 8 weeks overseas (10 weeks if you do research in Japan) in one of seven countries: Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, or New Zealand. Continue reading
