Wednesday, July 17, 2024

What Happens in Frankfurt Stays in Frankfurt

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I am going to be in Frankfurt for a few days for a workshop on metric networks that I coorganized.
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Saturday, July 13, 2024

What Happens in Oxford Stays in Oxford

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I am off to Oxford to spend most of the next few weeks. I'll also have a short embedded trip to Frankfurt and will be heading to Glasgow...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

RIP Barry Wellman (1942–2024)

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I'm very sad to hear about sociologist Barry Wellman 's death. He was one of the people who welcomed me warmly to the Sunbelt comm...
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Friday, June 28, 2024

RIP Martin Mull (1943–2024)

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Comedic actor, musician, and painter Martin Mull dies yesterday. I found out about him via the song "Dueling Tubas" , which I f...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

RIP Willie Mays (1931–2024)

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The legendary Willie Mays died today . Mays was the oldest living baseball Hall of Famer; he took the mantle in 2021 when Tommy Lasorda died...
Friday, June 14, 2024

"Emergence of Polarization in a Sigmoidal Bounded-Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics"

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A paper of mine was just published in final form . Here are zome details. Title: Emergence of Polarization in a Sigmoidal Bounded-Confid...
Friday, May 31, 2024

What Happens in Warsaw Stays in Warsaw

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I am heading to Warsaw to participate a couple of days in the WAW 2024 conference . This is my first trip to Poland in several years, and un...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

"Inference of Interaction Kernels in Mean-Field Models of Opinion Dynamics"

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A paper of mine just came out in final form . Here are some details about it. Title: Inference of Interaction Kernels in Mean-Field Model...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Shōgun (2024)

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I just finished watching the 2024 Shōgun , which I enjoyed very much. I read the book around December 1988 — followed over the next years...
Friday, April 12, 2024

What Happens in San Francisco Stays in San Francisco (again)

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I am heading to San Francisco for a cousin's wedding.
Thursday, April 11, 2024

RIP David Goodstein (1939–2024)

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David Goodstein (an emeritus physics professor at Caltech) died yesterday. This is the end of an era. I watched many of The Mechanical Un...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

What Happens in Hanover Stays in Hanover

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I am heading to New Hampshire for the first time ever. I'll be in Hanover to give the mathematics colloquium at Dartmouth College.
Monday, March 18, 2024

What Happens in New York City Stays in New York City

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I'm heading off to New York City for the first time in many years. I'll be giving a talk at The Rockefeller University.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

"Complex Networks with Complex Weights"

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The published version of one of my papers came out today. Its title is one of my favorites among all of the papers that I've ever writt...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame!

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Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer have been elected to the Major Legaue Baseball Hall of Fame ! I knew that Mauer would make the Hal...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

"Learning Low-Rank Latent Mesoscale Structures in Networks"

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One of my papers came out in final form today. Here are some details. Title: Learning Low-Rank Latent Mesoscale Structures in Networks ...
Tuesday, January 02, 2024

Want Happens in San Francisco Stays in San Francisco

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I am off to San Francisco for the 2024 Joint Mathematics Meetings .
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Dodgers Sign Pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto!

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The Dodgers have signed star pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto , who is joining the Majors from Japan. Now we have our ace starting pitcher! This...
Monday, December 18, 2023

"Human-Network Regions as Effective Geographic Units for Disease Mitigation"

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Another of my papers just came out in final form . Here are some details. Title: "Human-Network Regions as Effective Geographic Unit...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

2023 Hank Aaron Awards

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The 2023 Hank Aaron Awards for the best offensive player in each league have been awarded to Shohei Ohtani (formerly of the Angels and now ...