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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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Building Locality

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Beth Malmskog

My first three years out of graduate school, when I was in visiting positions, I was moving a lot and didn’t have much extra energy to dig into the communities where I lived. I made some great friends, but we … Continue reading →

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