next week's song and dance.

well, this should be ..interesting, for me. below, i copied a few day/time/titles from this week's U of M mathematics seminars bulletin..

(you can download it here)

.. and among them include:

Monday, September 24
3:10-4:00pm Student Analysis Seminar --- janus geminus (UM) Fractals and Measure Theory --- 3866 EH

...
Wednesday, September 26
3:10-4:00pm Geometric Function Theory Seminar --- janus geminus (UM) Derivations and Currents on Metric Spaces --- 4096 EH

i guess my time has come, after all. i'm speaking at the `grown-up' seminar. before i was mildly petrified at the thought, but i think i'm okay with it now.

two talks in one week..

the last time it happened to me, i spoke one monday, was stranded at various airports (due to inclement weather) the next day, made it to the conference by the third day and then spoke again. flying back that weekend, i resumed the talk at U of M that next monday.

i'm surprised it didn't turn into disaster.

maybe i make much of this. after all, a visiting prof here (r. barnard) has given three talks in 8 days, and a fellow student is also doing double-duty:

Tuesday, September 25
3:10-4:00pm Student Seminar on Representation Theory/Lie Theory --- Marc Krawitz (UM) TBA --- Room TBA

...
Friday, September 28
3:10-4:00pm Student Geometry/Topology --- Marc Krawitz (UM) The fundamental group of a compact semisimple Lie group is finite --- 3096 EH

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as i've been telling everyone, "i'm paying the piper early."

a few days ago i ran a search for job listings on the AMS website, and realised how soon some application deadlines are.

i don't think i have my act together for the NSF postdoc fellowship. it's too early, i haven't asked for recommendations yet .. and how can someone know who their "supervising scientist" will be, before the postdoc begins?

well, maybe next year.

at any rate, i gave myself this advice: better to talk now, so that i don't have to talk later..

..@ U of M, i mean;
there's another talk coming, in november.

that should be great fun!

.. because i envision days of frustrating fiddly application stuff, days of frustrations in trying to write up math, and more days of frustration with creating new math (which might not want to be created).