A selection of the more substantive posts I’ve written, without the filler material.
- Mathematics (general):
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- Women in math, and the overhaul of the publishing system (February 2012)
- A brief guide to a full professor’s administrative work (January 2012)
- The state of the profession (January 2012)
- Random thoughts on publishing and the internet (November 2011)
- Why I’m not on MathOverflow (March 2011)
- Math < reality. (February 2011)
- The mysterious effectiveness of trivial pursuits (September 2010)
- The girl who played with Fermat’s theorem (August 2010)
- What if mathematicians wrote travel articles? (June 2010)
- More on mathematics and madness (June 2010)
- Putnam (November 2009)
- Therein lies madness (October 2009)
- La Sagrada Familia and the hyperbolic paraboloid (June 2009)
- Blaming the mathematician (December 2008)
- Mathematics (research):
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- Buffon’s needles: a very short expository note (March 2012)
- An update on differentiation theorems (July 2009)
- Maximal estimates and differentiation theorems for sparse sets (May 2009)
- Bourgain’s circular maximal theorem: an exposition (May 2009)
- Density and differentiation theorems for sparse sets” (May 2009)
- The Piatetski-Shapiro theorem (March 2009)
- Growth, expanders, and the sum-product problem (a guest post by Harald Helfgott; December 2008)
- The sum-product problem (June 2008)
- The Kakeya problem in finite fields (March 2008)
- Academic life:
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- The varsity sports and the musical instruments (December 2010)
- I’m on ur payroll, sipping ur sherry (September 2009)
- Conferences, peer review, and political interference (June 2009)
- Best of the best? (January 2009)
- Freedom’s just another word to flap around (February 2008)
- B is for Breadth – or Burden? (February 2008)
- The trouble with candidacy exams (January 2008)
- Research politics and research funding:
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- Steve Jobs on curiosity and intuition (November 2012)
- PIMS Collaborative Research Groups (May 2011)
- Submission to the LRP steering committee (May 2011)
- NSERC peer review system: broken and unreliable (April 2011)
- It’s 2 am, where is my long-term strategy? (October 2010)
- Addendum on “priority areas” (July 2010)
- Letter to NSERC: Canadian mathematics does not need “priority areas” (July 2010)
- Would NSERC have paid for developing the laser? (March 2010)
- NSERC Discovery Grants: cut back again (May 2009)
- Don’t stop believin’ (March 2009)
- Stephen Harper: not good for science, not good for Canada (February 2009)
- Broken or not, fix it anyway? (November 2008)
- NSERC Discovery Grants: how we spend the money (September 2008)
- NSERC Discovery Grants: various updates (July 2008)
- NSERC Discovery Grants, on a tight budget (about the 2006-07 budget cuts; May 2008)
- The NSERC Discovery Grants program, evaluated (May 2008)
- The feminist in me:
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- Women in math, and the overhaul of the publishing system (February 2012)
- Why I’m not on MathOverflow (March 2011)
- Truth, images and consequences (September 2010)
- ToneCheck for women (August 2010)
- An entirely positive approach. Or something. (June 2010)
- Not good with breathing, either (April 2010)
- Not good with numbers (February 2010)
- Right back at ya (November 2009)
- Gender dependent (September 2009)
- On stereotyping (August 2008)
- The 99th percentile (August 2008)
- Wishing away the glass ceiling (July 2008)
- Their own wisdom (June 2008)
- Women in Math, or Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves (December 2007)
- Movies:
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- When the truth is gone… (A Serious Man; March 2010)
- The beautiful losers of Avatar (January 2010)
- Therein lies madness (Dangerous Knowledge, a BBC documentary; October 2009)
- Moon (July 2009)
- Various and sundry:
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- Le plus ca change… (March 2011)
- Waiting for the tiger teacher? (January 2011)
- Small expectations (December 2010)
- Lillian Alling and the immigrant experience (October 2010)
- Sucking at everything else (August 2010)
- The geek factor (April 2010)
- Paint it red (November 2009)
- Being there, going nowhere (September 2008)
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