CMI Lecture Notes and Articles

My friend pointed out that the Clay Mathematics Institute has released books in PDF format, and are available on the CMI Lecture Notes and Articles page.

There are some interesting books, such as

• Ricci Flow and the Poincaré Conjecture
  John Morgan and Gang Tian
• Mirror Symmetry
  Cumrun Vafa and Eric Zaslow
• Strings and Geometry
  Michael Douglas, Jerome Gauntlett, Mark Gross

They are all wonderful books. The Mirror Symmetry book, which I often use as a reference, is the most complete literature survey I have found on the subject; it is nearly a 1000 pages! Thanks to the PDF version, now I can just grab my laptop and move around the world with all the heavy books right next to me!

Relaunch of my blog

I have decided to relaunch my blog, and cover things that are not related to work, but closely related to my hobbies. Work related stuff will be posted on my institute homepage, and hopefully on the arXiv. Meanwhile, I am going to write mostly about:

• Reviews of books
• Squash
• Technology

I know it is a random mixture of things, and I do not intend to aim at a specific audience. In the end, blogging is for fun.

I also changed my blog’s name; it used to be The Art of Equations, I intended to be a pun of The Art of Computer Programming, but it didn’t work out as I hoped it to. I changed my blog’s name to “.square”. Why? I have something in mind, but maybe only the French will get it.

Back again! and update.

I have been busy lately, trying to cook up a project that my transfer report will be based on. Now I have an idea what the report will be based on: generalized complex geometry and SYZ conjecture. Hopefully, by four months time, I might be able to talk about exciting things happening in this area. 

Meanwhile, I was also playing a lot of squash, and started to climb up the MCR squash ladder. I am aiming to get in the top 10 by the end of summer. In summary, my life=research+squash. 

I am giving a talk on the SYZ conjecture in the Junior Mathematical Physics seminar series this Friday, so the next post will be about the talk sometime during the weekend.