Unfortunate equations
The following unfortunate claimed equations seem to be having a deleterious effect on development of Science and Academia:1. The excellence of a scientist's work = the number of papers...
View ArticleSequential versus parallel
We (Sabadini, Schiavio and I) have just finished a paper on the algebra and geometry of networks (which I must remember to put on Arxiv). In any case, we wanted to give one example involving Petri...
View ArticleFormal proofs
In 1994 in Tours at the Category Theory Conference Aurelio Carboni gave a talk. When he came to give the proof of his announced theorem he said in his inimitable way:What else could be?This caused a...
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Conference in memory of Aurelio Carboni
The Conference will be held in Milan, June 24 - 26, 2013, at the Department of Mathematics "Federigo Enriques" of the Università degli Studi (organized by Sandra Mantovani, Silvio Ghilardi, with the...
View ArticleSo it goes
1. The political movement which proposes e-government in Italy has just announced that a vote conducted by them has been hacked, and must be repeated with tighter security.2. Tim Gowers has conducted...
View ArticleRacks and Tangled Circuits
This is just a link (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92056191/walters-aurelio-talk-24062013.pdf) to the slides of the lecture I gave at the conference this week in Milan in memory of Aurelio...
View ArticleCT2013 Sydney, 7-13 July
The annual category theory conference begins tomorrow in Sydney.I had planned to attend taking the opportunity to visit Australia after many years of absence. Unfortunately May and June were terrible...
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Black Forest
Coming back from a conference in Germany we passed the river Bregwhose water flows into the Danube and hence to the Black Sea, and close by the river Gutachwhich joins the Rhine and hence the North...
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Gavia Pass
A photograph taken by my daughter of the lake (Lago Bianco) at Gavia Pass:I think a part of the Forni glacier is visible.Later: I realize that, as an Australian, I have not thought clearly about the...
View ArticleCollocamento a riposo
A few days ago I received from the Rector of the University of Insubria my letter of "collocamento a riposo" - that is, on the 1st November 2013 I will no longer be a professor at the the university.I...
View ArticleMemories of primary school
I lived in Brisbane for 24 years, in Canberra for 3 years, in Sydney for 29 years, and now for almost 15 years in Italy. My memories of the early years are not very clear. However recently some have...
View ArticleEvaluation of research
The Italian government has recently engaged in a procedure for the evaluation of research. The committees set up to do the evaluation have considered thousands (or tens of thousands) of publications. I...
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As others see us
Here a drawing by some students in Milan, before the moustache became white:
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Isle of Thorns 1976
The rest of the abstracts will be put shortly on the Como Category Theory Archive.
View ArticleRoss Street's Orientals
I recently had a look at one of Jacob Lurie's expositions (in 111 pages) on the clasification of topological field theories - very briefly and with little comprehension. I find it difficult to read...
View ArticleOn Topos Theory
I hesitate to write about Topos Theory since I am not an expert in this area. However it seems to me a subject of great importance which is being presented in a distorted fashion of late.Grothendieck...
View ArticleInterview with Bill Lawvere by Felice Cardone 2000
Going through my papers I found this mail-interview by Felice Cardone of Bill Lawvere made in 2000, on the role of cartesian closed categories in foundations. The interview contains important...
View ArticleLast days
I've mentioned before that I am retiring as professor at the University of Insubria, Como at the end of this month. I thought my last days would be tranquil, an opportunity to put my papers in...
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Como has chosen: it wants to be a university city
Yesterday the Provincia di Como had this photograph on the front page:I thought I had been teaching at a university in Como for 15 years.
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