News from March 2007

Serre on How to Write Mathematics Badly

We highly recommend this video of Jean-Pierre Serre, speaking on "How to Write Mathematics Badly". The talk is apparently from the Harvard "Basic Notions" seminar in 2003, and is both educational and hilarious.

We recently learned of the existence of a wiki for academic positions in mathematics. It contains information about the status of faculty searches at various institutions posted anonymously by folks on the job market.

Speaking of jobs, we've learned from John Greenlees (email: J.Greenlees@sheffield.ac.uk) of a postdoctoral position to work on the project `Orientability and complete intersections for ring spectra'. The position starts Summer 2007 and has not been posted on the EIMS site. More information can be found at John Greenlees' website or at one of the following job sites: http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/ or http://www.jobs.ac.uk/. The closing date is 04 April.

Posted on March 2, 2007
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