Rigorous Trivialities

I gave my talk today. It seems to have gone over well, though I’m not entirely happy with it…but then, as with many people, I’m my own harshest critic. Here’s the notes from other talks, the notes from mine will follow in a separate post.

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Sorry these are going up a bit later than usual, had some difficulties last night, and was working on my talk. I’m just not taking notes whenever there are slides or lecture notes on the overhead, because it’s impossible for me to keep up while taking notes on those talks, so that will limit these a bit, but here are the other talks:

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Just a quick little thing before the conference talks start, and I’m texing in earnest, the rest of the notes I was able to take during the summer school are now posted on my Notes page, here.  They’re a bit nicer, as my computer has quite a few more latex packages than wordpress (anyone figured out a good workaround yet? Either a way to teach wordpress things like xy, or how to handle a header, or perhaps another free program that can be installed on a wordpress blog, with of course, the issue that it’s hosted at wordpress, not my own domain) that will do the trick?)

The summer school is over. Tomorrow begins the conference, including talks from such luminaries as Arapura, Illusie, Griffiths…and that’s just the first three talks tomorrow. I’ll be talking on Thursday at 17:05, and until then, it’s polishing time for my talk, and working on a new lead on the research it’s expositing. Meanwhile, today’s notes are somewhat sparse. I’d lost track of the Shimura Varieties thread days ago, and today I lost the Beilinson-Bloch thread, sadly. Hopefully I’ll work it out later, but my lack of arithmetic background has caught up with me, I couldn’t keep everything straight…well. Here’s the notes from today, tomorrow’s should be more modular:

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Today was the penultimate day of the summer school. Once it finishes, there will be a conference, and things go through Friday, so all-in-all, there will be 15 days in this series. And here’s today’s notes:

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And these posts are getting shorter, as the talks that I’m even attempting to take notes in are finishing. The other talks are good, they’re just moving very, very fast and given a choice between learning and notetaking, I’m choosing learning. Perhaps once this is done, I’ll make an attempt at posting blogified versions of some of these notes, making them a bit more interconnected, etc. We’ll see, if I do, it won’t be until the Fall, because right now, my big priorities are finishing writing the talk I’m giving on Thursday (my notes will be posted separately from the others) and also working on the lectures for the Math History for Liberal Arts course that I’m teaching (strictly, Ideas in Mathematics, but I’m doing something different with it). Anyway, here are today’s notes:

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