A selection of the more substantive posts I’ve written, without the filler material.
- Mathematics:
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- 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)
- Conference update, part II (April 2008)
- Conference update, part I (April 2008)
- The Kakeya problem in finite fields (March 2008)
- Academic life:
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- Conferences, peer review, and political interference (June 2009)
- Freedom’s just another word to flap around (February 2008)
- Best of the best? (January 2009)
- B is for Breadth – or Burden? (February 2008)
- The trouble with candidacy exams (January 2008)
- Research funding:
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- 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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- 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)
- Various and sundry:
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- La Sagrada Familia and the hyperbolic paraboloid (June 2009)
- Blaming the mathematician (December 2008)
- Being there, going nowhere (September 2008)
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