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PhD thesis award Zoé CHATZIDAKIS Faire un don à Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris - PhD thesis award Zoé CHATZIDAKIS

A new Ph.D thesis prize is being established in honor of Zoé Chatzidakis, by Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris.

This yearly award for an outstanding thesis in model theory will honor her scientific legacy and her commitment to the younger generation.

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Zoé Chatzidakis, a great mathematician, passed a way a few months ago.

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PhD thesis award Zoé CHATZIDAKIS Faire un don à Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris - PhD thesis award Zoé CHATZIDAKIS

A new Ph.D thesis prize is being established in honor of Zoé Chatzidakis, by Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris.

This yearly award for an outstanding thesis in model theory will honor her scientific legacy and her commitment to the younger generation.

www.helloasso.com/associations...

Well done to Deidre Haskell, @archernikov.bsky.social, and others who have resigned en masse from the profit-oriented Mathematical Logic Quarterly and founded a new diamond open-access journal ZML!

Academics have the upper hand over commercial publishers, when they decide to flex their muscles.

Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence’ The managing editors and entire editorial board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly, a Wiley title, have resigned, citing “unilateral decisions” by the publisher “that affected the editorial process.”&…

Another blog post on Retraction Watch about the Mathematical Logic Quarterly editorial board walk out, and the launch of a new diamond open access journal Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik (ZML).
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Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence’ The managing editors and entire editorial board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly, a Wiley title, have resigned, citing “unilateral decisions” by the publisher “that affected the editorial process.”&…

Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence'

I'll suggest it going forward!

Further resignation of an editorial board: Mathematical Logic Quarterly - TIB-Blog There has been an increasing number of resignations by editors of scholarly journals in recent years. In many cases, the editors have criticised the publisher’s excessive influence, especially when th...

More on the collective action and an editorial board walk-out that led to the creation of this new journal:
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ZML - Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik ZML: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik is an electronic Diamond Open Access research journal in mathematical logic publishing original research papers in all areas of m...

I'm excited to join the editorial board of a new diamond open access journal in mathematical logic:

ZML: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik
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The open letter of the editors of ZML can be found online on the webpage.

A photo of Zoé Chatzidakis smiling.

Very very sad news for all of us in the model theory community.

Dr. Zoé Chatzidakis, a brilliant mathematician, loyal friend, fierce advocate for her subject and strong supporter of women and young people. She died on the morning of January 22, 2025.

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Andrés Villaveces Niño (@andresvillaveces@mathstodon.xyz) Attached: 1 image Very sad news today: Zoé Chatzidakis, a superb model theorist from France with important work on many venues of the model theory of fields, has passed away this morning. Zoé's math...

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SOCIETE MATHEMATIQUE DE FRANCE on LinkedIn: C'est avec une très grande tristesse que nous avons appris le décès de Zoé… C'est avec une très grande tristesse que nous avons appris le décès de Zoé Chatzidakis. Zoé était une mathématicienne remarquable et une orfèvre de…

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A photo of Zoé Chatzidakis smiling.

Very very sad news for all of us in the model theory community.

Dr. Zoé Chatzidakis, a brilliant mathematician, loyal friend, fierce advocate for her subject and strong supporter of women and young people. She died on the morning of January 22, 2025.

www.fields.utoronto.ca/news/Memoria...

Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position with HSI Initiative University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

My #math department at #UCLA is now advertising for an additional tenure-track assistant professor position as part of UCLA's HSI (Hispanic Serving Institution) initiative: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10045 . The deadline for applications is Jan 20, 2025.

Surreal numbers

Here I am! What's going on at BlueSky? I'm interested in all things infinite, including especially math and philosophy and the interaction of math and philosophy. Please point me toward what's going on here.

Meanwhile, for your enjoyment here is a picture I made of the first few surreal numbers...

We need bookmarks

The first page of the instagram post.

Tanya Klowden and I have set up an instagram to record various #astronomy stories we have gathered during the process of writing a forthcoming book on the cosmic distance ladder. Our latest post, on the "mini-moon" that briefly visited our neighborhood, is now up: www.instagram.com/p/DC08k17xZqB

A screenshot from the website announcing the VIG conference: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/Conf/VIG2025/

There will be a Very Informal Gathering of Logicians (VIG 2025) at UCLA, Fri, Feb 7 to Sun, Feb 9, 2025.
The 22nd in a series of biennial logic meetings at UCLA, this event honors Alexander Kechris on the occasion of his formal retirement from Caltech.
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A screenshot from the website announcing the VIG conference: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/Conf/VIG2025/

There will be a Very Informal Gathering of Logicians (VIG 2025) at UCLA, Fri, Feb 7 to Sun, Feb 9, 2025.
The 22nd in a series of biennial logic meetings at UCLA, this event honors Alexander Kechris on the occasion of his formal retirement from Caltech.
www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/Con...
#MathSky

I'm visiting Carnegie Mellon for a week, and giving a talk tomorrow, on some interplay of mathematical logic, combinatorics and theoretical machine learning:
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I'm visiting Carnegie Mellon for a week, and giving a talk tomorrow, on some interplay of mathematical logic, combinatorics and theoretical machine learning:
www.cmu.edu/math/news-ev...

It feels a bit strange having a completely empty profile page, so here's an introductory post to say that I'm only an occasional contributor to Twitter, but my plan now is to cross post here and see how things go, both for me personally and for the two sites as a whole. 1/4

The evolution of model theory through the latter half of the 20th century, via Andrew Marks an ChatGPT.

The evolution of model theory through the latter half of the 20th century, via Andrew Marks an ChatGPT.

Very useful! It would be wonderful to recreate the old days math twitter in some form here.

Fair enough. It sounds like mathematics might be better suited for parents :)

Of course this seems to require having enough conferences with approximately equivalent topics/status.

Yes, perhaps that sounds like the saving grace of the conference system - unfortunately doesn't apply to invited volumes!

That's a good point about hard deadlines - it would be so liberating to just miss one at this point!
Another issue I'm encountering is that as you write, you want to do more things, or do them right - unclear how one could estimate how long it takes, even if you push everything else off.