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Review – Seife: Decoding the Universe

16 August, 2010 in category Mathematics for non-mathematicians, english by Konrad.

This is a review of Charles Seife: Decoding the Universe – How the new science of information is explaining everything in the cosmos, from our brains to black holes

ICTP Summer School and Conference on Hodge Theory

1 July, 2010 in category english, mathematics, travelling by Konrad.

Some remarks on the ICTP Summer School and Conference on Hodge Theory and Related Topics (14 June – 2 July, 2010) in Miramare, Trieste, Italy.

Mass renaming papers with BibTex+JabRef export filters

28 June, 2010 in category LaTeX, english, mathematics by Konrad.

I wrote a JabRef export filter that takes a BibTex file with file links and writes a linux shell script to rename the files systematically according to the scheme [bibtexkey] – [authors] – [title].[extension].

Interesting new homotopy blog: Chromotopy

16 June, 2010 in category english, mathematics, web by Konrad.

I just found, purely by luck, a recent blog about chromatic homotopy theory and various other mathematical topics. It’s a group blog called Chromotopy, written by Brendan Pawlowski, Eric Peterson, Erik Davis and Stephen Checkoway. They started February 2010.
The first posts (from Feb 2010 to June 2010):

Grand opening
Schreier theory
Jordan type of a modular representation
Bundles for [...]