Winter Olympic Games 2010

Owh...I'm so into Vancouver Olympic Winter Games 2010. And I really enjoy almost all the games very much. Not to mention that my significant other also in the same mood as I am.

Last night, we watched the quater final of ice hockey played between Russian and Canada. We cheered for Canada like so huge and we win the game with 3-7 goals with Russia being defeated. Also, yesterday a one of the memorable day of Canada since for one day the medals count for her is four. All from the women's two woman bobsleigh (gold and silver), women's l500m long speed track (bronze) and women's 3000m relay short track (silver).

Tomorrow there will be more games to come. And perhaps more medals for Canada.

Go Canada Go...

Women are hmm...complicated?

Is it true that women are hard to please?

So yesterday, I heard my friends complaining about his teacher for this course he took. And I know his teacher too. He was talking about the result of the midterm he took and there is some kind of a misunderstanding of the question and the answer that he wrote.

After he burst (small) about what happened to another friend who also took the same course, he told me that

"Nurisya, women are complicated". In a mocking kind a way. He refer it to the teacher.

I just laugh and reply with, is there any particular reason why did you say that. Oh, he said that he got lots of reasons to strengthen his statement. He continued saying that we don't know what exactly that she want. How much details that she want and sometime, she herself don't even know what she want. It's pretty big issue.

I'm not sure if I am in the group of a complicated human being. I usually see myself being very particular and every single things that I take should be practical. So how complicated is that?

Though when it comes to this scientist, in this case a mathematician, and to be more specific, a functional analyst, maybe the terms of complicated falls within the area of his or her works. It doesn't have to be influence by ones gender.

P/S- then what happen to the usual sense which say men are unpredictable. Is it true?

Maths Physics Seminar

The title of today's talk is "Illusion of space-time and quantum mechanics (QM)" given by Professor Pavel K. Smrz from University of Newcastle, Australia. For more see this link.

As usual, I went to University de Montreal (UdEM) using metro subways since I can't stand to walk up the hill to the seminar room. And before the seminar started, I just noticed there is a conference given in CRM (Center of Mathematical Research), UdEM which is in 2007 that have a participant from Malaysia. The topic was heavy called

Groups and Symmetries: From Neolitics Scots to John Mackay"

This participant from Malaysia is known to be my former supervisor's colleague who her Phd advisor was Professor Leon Takhtajan from SUNY Stony Brook, New York. Prof. Takhtajan is one of the speaker in EQuaLS1.

I was so impressed that Malaysia do have a representative in this kind of I might say difficult area. John Mackay on the other hand is a very famous mathematician with his works on computation group theory and also Galois theory related from Concordia whom I met before during my Lie group class last winter 2008 (see this post). To be honest I was really inspired by these people.

Longest Verification

I've been doing this calculation of group multiplication from a 'new' group representation theory for about two weeks now. Last weekend saw me doing it over and over again. Which at the end, showed that no resolution is covered. Last week also during my discussion, me and my advisor are somehow 'fighting' each other to show which formula really works and how to solve it.

There are two things which I need to prove. The first part is using the group multiplication one needs to show that the group representation is correct. And the second part is to get the correct matrix form from the group representation. I sense that this is not as simple as the 2x2 or 3x3 matrices. So I start with 4x4 and all my matrix multiplication so far show a NO go. One of the terms which I got is not correct. I just manage to get only three terms correct out of four. Which is not correct at all. It has to be a unique solution.

Owh I feel so so tired. But I need to keep it up and try other ways plus trying to look for if there is meaning comes out of it. The multiplication and groups. Aarrgghh...