Iceland: land of waterfalls and geysers
Ice and Land I am recharging my batteries with a quick trip to Iceland. For that reason, my post will be short this week. So this post is more “travel blog” than “math in pop culture”. Mathematics will sneak in at the end, of course. My spouse and I arrived in Reykjavík Friday, which is a small…
Publishing is dead, long live publishing
Disruption! I am an academic, and as you would expect, I love to read. I mainly read papers in academic journals and advanced texts in mathematics. I can’t remember the last time I was in a physical library. Actually, I walk through the library as a short cut across Ryerson University campus. However, I do heavily use the…
Interview with a mathematician: Alan Frieze
Alan Frieze (born 1945 in London, England) is one of the world’s leading experts on random graphs and the probabilistic method in combinatorics. He is a Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Alan is very productive. At last count, he has 351 papers (and counting) referenced on Mathscinet. His…
Kennedy Space Center and SIAM Discrete Mathematics Conference
I am travelling this week, so I am keeping the blog short. I checked off a bucket-list item this weekend: I visited the Kennedy Space Center. I am a huge space enthusiast, and am fascinated by every aspect of space exploration. Every mathematician, scientist, and SFF fan should make this a must-see destination. On the…