how the talk went.

preamble: i have to stop giving talks for the first time at conferences. indeed, i sound like a nervous twit when i do ..


minus signs.

1. i went over my allotted time: a conference sin!
   
   
2. i misread the audience. it was an AMS Special Session, but the same crowd lingered for all the talks, so i wasted two slides giving definitions that everyone already knew.
   
   
3. i should have drawn diagrams on the transparencies themselves, instead of drawing them on-the-fly, on the whiteboard behind the lectern. this happened four times.
   
   
4. i think i misrepresented myself and may have intimidated some of the audience by mentioning milnor's exotic differential structures on the 7-sphere.
   
   
5. i never reached my last two slides, which would have said something about harmonic functions. a great tragedy ..
   

plus signs.

1. at the least, i think i spoke clearly and that everyone followed me.
   
   
2. i did get a few curious questions and many informative comments and suggestions. analysts are such nice people!
   

now it's a matter of writing a research article based on what i talked about. oh, joy of joys ..