Well, no word on the string theory video yet.
The semester ended in blood, sweat and tears but I some how managed to pull straight A's again. That's actually a serious surprise since both Complex and Algebraic Geometry were kicking my ass. Huh.
This summer I'll be back to the pebbling research and preparing for next semester--specifically PDEs, which means pulling out the old vector...
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The semester ended in blood, sweat and tears but I some how managed to pull straight A's again. That's actually a serious surprise since both Complex and Algebraic Geometry were kicking my ass. Huh.
This summer I'll be back to the pebbling research and preparing for next semester--specifically PDEs, which means pulling out the old vector...
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radiofrank:
Yeah, it was a blast. You should come up here for Gala '08!
radiofrank:
Curses and confoundments!
Well, here it is...the link to our String Theory Video: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony.
Please go here and vote for us (click the link, scroll down to the vote section)! If you want to watch our video, just scroll down the right hand video menu.
DiscoverMagazine.com
Remember: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony. Make me proud. And don't vote for the kids. Kids are cute. Strings are...
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Please go here and vote for us (click the link, scroll down to the vote section)! If you want to watch our video, just scroll down the right hand video menu.
DiscoverMagazine.com
Remember: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony. Make me proud. And don't vote for the kids. Kids are cute. Strings are...
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lussie:
I voted!!
thank you...♥ i hope all the meds i take will help, for now, i feel a little stoned hehe !!
thank you...♥ i hope all the meds i take will help, for now, i feel a little stoned hehe !!
radiofrank:
...if keeping me younger is part of your plan to take over, then I'm all for it. 
I can't get enough of this song. As such, I'm probably going to Hell.
The string theory video made it to the finals--as in the top eight videos! That's pretty freakin' cool, even if we don't win (primarily because Brian Greene is the finals judge and that means Brian Greene is going to look at something with my name on it)!
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radiofrank:
Never thought of it that way.
Congrats on the success with the video, good sir. My fingers are crossed on your behalf.
Congrats on the success with the video, good sir. My fingers are crossed on your behalf.
radiofrank:
You're not the boss of me! I'll go to bed when I want to. 
Needless to say, I've been busy.
The string theory video is in the can and sent off--it's not great but definitely not bad for a just-over-two-week rush job and collaboration between to disparate departments. When I can, I'll post a link.
Spring break came and went under the auspices of an algebraic geometry take-home midterm. Fun.
Although our latest scientific computing project was a monumental...
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The string theory video is in the can and sent off--it's not great but definitely not bad for a just-over-two-week rush job and collaboration between to disparate departments. When I can, I'll post a link.
Spring break came and went under the auspices of an algebraic geometry take-home midterm. Fun.
Although our latest scientific computing project was a monumental...
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radiofrank:
Thanks for the birthday cheer, good sir!
Glad to hear that the end result of the computing project was good, despite the whole "monumental bust" thing. I remember that sort of thing quite fondly, for the most part.
Glad to hear that the end result of the computing project was good, despite the whole "monumental bust" thing. I remember that sort of thing quite fondly, for the most part.
radiofrank:
Thanks! Glad that you like them.
Discover Magazine is holding a competition to see who can make the best two-minute video about string-theory. Big-wigs at CSUCI want a team of students to enter (and win). The team consists of about ten animation students and four math majors. The deadline is March 16th. I was asked to join the math team this afternoon in hopes of helping them have an award-winning script...
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radiofrank:
What other reason is there for getting into mathematics? Jeez.
Good luck!
Good luck!
radiofrank:
I'm totally in the wrong line of work, then.
Dearly Devoted Dexter rocks. Read it. It's good for you--in that Serial Killer As Social Satire sort of way.
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evanx:
Heh, you're one of 'em!
rk:
I'd imagine more, as Portugal is like right there...
The genus, apparently, of a curve in Real two-space is built from the Complex geometry of a sphere (genus zero) to a torus (genus one) to a two-holed torus (genus two) to an n-holed torus (genus n). If you bisect any one of these shapes with a Real plane, you get the shape of a two dimensional curve mapped onto the plane by...
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radiofrank:
My brain hurts!
radiofrank:
Thanks; I'm glad that you like it.
(Personally, I'm surprised that your head hasn't exploded yet. )
(Personally, I'm surprised that your head hasn't exploded yet.
)Well, the first week of the semester is finished. Three of my classes have projects/presentations, but they don't seem like they'll be too difficult. Complex analysis looks like it's going to be really fun and algebraic geometry looks like it will be mind-blowing. Difficult as hell, yes, but mind-blowing (in an awesome way), nonetheless.
Still, I blew off tonight's homework stint to watch a bunch...
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Still, I blew off tonight's homework stint to watch a bunch...
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lunch:
`In that case we start fresh,' said Humpty Dumpty, `and it's my turn to choose a subject -- ' (`He talks about it just as if it was a game!' thought Alice.) `So here's a question for you. How old did you say you were?'
Alice made a short calculation, and said `Seven years and six months.'
`Wrong!' Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. `You never said a word like it!'
`I though you meant "How old are you?"' Alice explained.
`If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty.
Alice didn't want to begin another argument, so she said nothing.
`Seven years and six months!' Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. `An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked my advice, I'd have said "Leave off at seven" -- but it's too late now.'
`I never ask advice about growing,' Alice said Indignantly.
`Too proud?' the other inquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. `I mean,' she said, `that one can't help growing older.'
`One can't, perhaps,' said , `but two can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven.'
`In that case we start fresh,' said Humpty Dumpty, `and it's my turn to choose a subject -- ' (`He talks about it just as if it was a game!' thought Alice.) `So here's a question for you. How old did you say you were?'
Alice made a short calculation, and said `Seven years and six months.'
`Wrong!' Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. `You never said a word like it!'
`I though you meant "How old are you?"' Alice explained.
`If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty.
Alice didn't want to begin another argument, so she said nothing.
`Seven years and six months!' Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. `An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked my advice, I'd have said "Leave off at seven" -- but it's too late now.'
`I never ask advice about growing,' Alice said Indignantly.
`Too proud?' the other inquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. `I mean,' she said, `that one can't help growing older.'
`One can't, perhaps,' said , `but two can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven.'
radiofrank:
Iit seems that nearly everyone around here (including me) have no life whatsoever these days.
I don't know whether I should laugh or cry.
I don't know whether I should laugh or cry.
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radiofrank:
What the frak were you doing with a goat? 
radiofrank:
Ah, very good. You had me worried for a moment.