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Iozzi 60 and Duke 61 updates

Just a quick update to indicate that the official FIM pages for the conferences in honor of Alessandra Iozzi’s 60th birthday and Bill Duke’s 61st birthday (both at FIM next year) are now available....

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Postdocs at ETH

Like every year, the mathematics department of ETH offers some postdoc positions. This year, a slightly different organization has been chosen, combining some resources with the FIM. The positions are...

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Monte Verità registration open

The registration for the Winter School on trace functions at Monte Verità can now begin. As explained on the web page, because the number of participants is limited, you should send an email to this...

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Elias Stein

I was very saddened to read on T. Tao’s blog of the death of Elias Stein. Although I did not know him personally, or even worked in the same area of mathematics, I felt a great admiration and respect...

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Der Zauberberg

Two days ago, in the evening, I finished reading “Der Zauberberg” in German. I had started in early June, a bit before the previous post, so it took about seven months. This is comparable to the time...

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Clean-up before closure

I’ve cleaned-up my list of publications and unpublished notes, moving in the second page some preprints that are not going to be submitted for publication (as well as two notes that I had not yet put...

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A bat in the office

If you have visited the ETH main building, you might have noticed birds that are sometimes lost within its great halls. Although it is not so obvious, bats are also often found there; so many, in...

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Expander book available!

I said I was done blogging for the foreseeable future, but marketing conquers all, and I can’t refrain from announcing that my book on expander graphs was just published by the SMF (in the series...

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Hédi Daboussi, in memoriam

I was very sad to learn today from R. de la Bretèche and É. Fouvry that Hédi Daboussi passed away yesterday. Hédi played an important part in my life; he was the first actual analytic number theorist...

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45 years of Deligne’s Fourier transform

It is exactly 45 years ago today that Deligne, in a letter to David Kazhdan (available here) introduced the -adic version of the classical Fourier transform… This construction, which operates on...

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