An eye opener about writing
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I like writing. I like writing about everything. About journeys, my biking trips, about people I meet, about mathematics, events that I visit, about my teaching.
Back to school!
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Last month I was back in the classroom. But this time the kiddos in my class were quite younger than I'm used to: instead of a class of university students, this time I had an enthusiastic group of school students in front of me.
A wonderful journey immersing in discrete mathematics
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Last January I was very pleased to attend an annual summer school in discrete mathematics in Valparaíso, Chile. It was the very first time for me to attend such a summer school overseas as a master’s student. It was a wonderful journey, especially when discussing mathematics.
Abel prize 2023 to Luis A. Caffarelli
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The Abel Committee has awarded Luis A. Caffarelli the 2023 Abel Prize for his seminal contributions to the study of nonlinear partial differential equations.
The importance of LGBTQ+ visibility in mathematics
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Beyond the rainbow crossing: on issues, questions, and opportunities for LGBTQ+ researchers.
Some thoughts on ChatGPT
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I was very excited and interested when I heard some months ago about ChatGPT and what it can do. Both as a mathematician and as a teacher I was very curious about the responses it would give to my questions.
A mathematical journey from Pakistan to Ghana
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I have the privilege to use mathematics as a way to explore amazing corners of the world and meet wonderful people.
Let me tell you a story from my teaching
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On Wednesday I was teaching an exercise class on graph theory. There was this one exercise that was troubling me for a couple of days, I couldn't solve it and it was frustrating.
Finance, Networks and Statistics come together
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One of the lessons learned after the financial crisis of 2008, with Lehman Brothers collapsing, causing instability in the global economy, was that there is a strong need to better model the underlying financial network in an economy as a whole.
Writing with Analytic Storytelling
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Together with Arnaud Bom from Analytic Storytelling, we decided to promote some of the articles on the Network Pages because of the creative writing techniques the authors used. We want to share these writing tips with you so that you can apply them in your writings!