Category Archives: networking

Are You Ready For Some Football?

Posted on September 1, 2020 by kthompson

Many of us, myself included, have it pretty easy. And so it’s been interesting to see what people’s “Corona/quarantine” breaking-points have been. For some, who I believe are VERY pampered, it came early: “I don’t know when I’m going to … Continue reading →

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Posted on January 21, 2020 by kthompson

How do you determine whether or not to attend a particular conference? As a working example to see through to natural generalizations, let’s use the JMM. [Just to choose a conference we’ve all heard of, attend at least once in … Continue reading →

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It’s Not a Competition…But We’re Still Ahead

Posted on September 16, 2019 by kthompson

Life is full of ironies and contradictions. Case in point: I write for two competitions (Who Wants to Be a Mathematician, and MATHCOUNTS), but I never have participated in a math competition myself. I hadn’t even heard of the Putnam … Continue reading →

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