Saturday, April 17, 2010

stranger in a strange land, pt. 2 [EPILOGUE ADDED]

i'm still in arkansas. it's a pleasant crowd out here, but it's not my crowd. ever since i set foot on this campus, i've worried about my talk.


the lecture series centers on minιmal surfaces and meaη curνature flοw. i study neither of these things. (almost) everyone else does, though.

yesterday i grew so paranoid that i started writing another talk;

it's based on one of the few works i've done on euclιdean spaces: that schöenflies result. i've given that talk lots of times ..

.. but not to this audience,
.. and besides, the paper hasn't been accepted yet, so it's still "new" work to discuss ..

i'll ask the organizers. probably they will think i'm weird (which is true). we'll see what happens.

maybe neither talk would have been well-received .. [sighs]


epilogue. whether or not i had reason to be paranoid, the gambit worked. i think the talk was well-received. as for details, one of the conference organizers asked a kindly question, but that was it.

being a contributed (read: irrelevant) talk,
i don't think i made it easy to ask anything. \-:

oh well. at least they didn't boo (or fall asleep).

on a related note, afterwards someone asked me how i managed my diagrams. so for those of you out there: try pstricks. (-:

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