Stanislav Jabuka gave a review of my "coloured untying" paper on mathscinet which is complete rubbish (access from universities by typing my name as "author" and searching. I can't link from a private server). The main theorem is stated incorrectly, and the statement of the theorem is the whole review ( Read more... )

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I got attacked 3 times today, in various levels of severity. From the absurdly light to the more serious ( Read more... )

I'm at this Geometric Langlands masterclass in Aarhus. Kapustin 2-4 hours a day for 2 weeks explaining his huge mega-paper with Witten which shows that Geometric Langlands is a special case of Montonen-Olive electro-magnetic duality. I.e. it follows from an analogue of the Maxwell equations. Most of it is way over my head because it's a high-energy ( Read more... )

Buy Figaro Japan's September edition. There's a non-zero chance I'm mentioned in its article on Denmark, having had a long talk with the guy writing it.

I feel personally insulted by this Associated Press article.
On what grounds exactly is Moshe Feiglin labeled a "radical West Bank settler" in the face of sane and rational Bibi Netanyahu??? Why is his platform misrepresented so horribly?
One reason is probably that Feiglin's website is vague. But it certainly stands for greater things than the AP ( Read more... )

Vietnam was a lot of fun. It's definitely going good places I think- an educated population, safe, some English (although pronunciation is as a rule abysmal), seemingly low corruption, ambitious, lots of young people... see it as my bet for the next Asian success story ( Read more... )

Vietnam is very interesting... quite unexpectedly so. It's Communist, no doubt about it, but it's safe and relatively comfortable. Much more so than any other third world country I've ever been in ( Read more... )

Next week I'm in 'Nam.

My brother Avraham Jeremy got married today! (rashii desu)