Category: Non-Math
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I finally caught a dear friend at RISC (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation) and asked for some of his wisdom. He answered in his usual unique and sometimes convoluted way. I hope you’ll enjoy our conversation as much as I did.
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I get to catch up with a long-time friend in Linz, of all places. He was always someone to look up to since my graduate student years. I am happy to finally get to have a deep chat about some aspects of academic life with him. Unfortunately, my camera died, and we didn’t get to…
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I recently had the privilege of working on an interdisciplinary project. My coauthor, Michael, and I struggled to understand each other at first, but it became a fun project once the translations and goals were all set. Here is the published paper at JSC: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747717125000380, and here is my take on our collaboration at the…
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“Lange Nacht der Forschung” (Long Night of Research) is an Austria-wide inspiring bi-annual event that showcases the world of science and innovation to the public. Each institute and university holds events for one night after work hours all across Austria to meet the public and talk about their research. What questions are they asking? How…
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It is always lovely to interact with the math enthusiasts. Türkiye Mathematik is one of the most established and active groups these days. They helped the SCALE 22 conference and provided the conference volunteers, to run the organızatıon smoothly. I am so glad they asked me to give a plenary talk and I was honored…
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November 21 – 25, 2022 This is a research in teams event that will take place at Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW) and Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) of Johannes Kepler University (JKU). Some talks are announced below to introduce the problems and…
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I don’t believe anyone wants me to recap what is up these days (the numbers, the numbers are up) or why there would be a need for quarantining. So I’ll just jump into my mandatory quarantine days. March 1, 2021: Quarantine day 0 I started this day fairly early. I actually did the Vienna to…
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My end of many beginnings was the launch of my late year plans. I was going to my hometown to take care of some well needed business. The obligations I was carrying from Florida was worrying me a little. Went to Tampa airport to start a chain of flights on a sunny day. Said my…
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In the early summer of 2014, I had the chance of showing Turkey, as I like it, to three of my PhD friends from Florida. I knew them all from the beginning of my Gainesville days. Smart bunch, all have doctorates now. One was my flatmate of the time, let’s name him Dillard. And I had…
Ali K. Uncu 