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I am in a very long run with analysis. Could not find any courage yet to post something that is interesting. The track is full of technicalities and stumbles.

p/s- hard time is trying to spurs around. Please someone get me a powerful armor

ISM Colloquium 2009-Day 1

I've signed up to be as the attendees of the ISM Gaduate Sudent Conference 2009 which is held annually. This year the conference is held at UQAM (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) (a friend told that last two years it was at Concordia). At the early beginning, the organizer did mentioned that talks could be given in French (as the official language of Quebec) or English or both. As in my previous experience, lots of student prefer to speak in French rather than English especially if they came from the non-English university (in Montreal there are only two English (-speaking) university, McGill and Concordia).

I have no problem to listen to any seminar who was in French but the slides are in English. So as they present we can read on through the slides. And also, some term in French is similar to one we have in English. Where the differences are on the pronounciations and spells.

Today after the registration, I scanned the list of the abstracts given. 90% of the talks will be in French. As it happened previously, I am a bit of awkward to really asked the speaker to give their talks in English just for a minor group like myself because the looks from the rest appeared inconvenient. So lets look at the summary below

#1. Sarah Dufour on educational mathematics. How student can learn differential calculus (purely in French)

#2. Sebastian Labbe. software, SAGE where the communication language are the phyton (the slides blend between English and French). I found this talk interesting as it's more on software applications and examples.

#3. Jerome Fortier, Contemplating Incompletness. (slides in English). A story of the process of constructing a mathematical theory. Content- tons of theorems.

Plenary Speaker (Damien Calaque from Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon France) talked on the theory of Lie in the complex géometrie, by way of the isomorphism of Duflo. This talk should be in French, but after made a personal request from the speaker, he said that he has no problem to give a talk in English since his slides are already in French (so that everyone is happy). But need a proven by the organizer. I am fortunate that it is done in English. This topic is related on how Lie algebra exist in the relation of Duflo's result of isomorphism. Which is by the analogue of Duflo isomorphism of complex geometry. The speaker is a mathematical physicist.

Idol's Mood

Just to spice things up regarding the new Season 8 winner of American Idol. At the very beginning everyone has predicted (even Simon Cowell) that Adam Lambert will owns the title of a winner. However I'm not sure what happened to Adam's fan, their votes are less than Kriss Allen. Right now Kriss is enjoying his first single call "No Boundaries". I personally like the song. But sadly to say that I like the version of Adam Lambert's rather than Kriss Allen's version. Readers can decide it yourself. I post both versions.

Kriss Allen's version

Adam's version (I think, maybe the song which best described as rock genre suits Adam's voice more).

But overall I'm happy with the final results. Kriss is definitely a talented one of a singer. He's catchy and more versatile than Adam.
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Plus I very much enjoyed the performance of Kriss and Keith Urban during the finale night. Again enjoy.

Song title "Kiss the Girl" by Keith Urban

p/s- personal point of view

Spring(Summer) is Here

All these while I always want to fly a kite at least once in my life. And...

the kite fly really well...

the kite gets higher and higher.

sadly, she is more into ball.

Department Seminar

After a long pause of no seminar, today we have a seminar given by a visiting professor of Professor Bob Raphael who research interest are on ring theory and commutative algebra. The speaker Dr. John Kennison is from Clark University, (Worcester, Mass). He speaks on the "Elementary Aspects of Multivalued Logic, Dynamical systems, Chaos, Topos and Banach Algebras".

I'm not sure if the topics suits me that well. But as my SV reminded me that its good to attend as many seminar as I can. It is not a compulsory but at least, just to show some interest and getting to know what are the progress of other current research.

Dr. Kennison talked on how the multivalued logic contributes to dynamical systems and chaos (or best for probability statistic). For example, at present how the prediction of the weather forecast is being measured. It is well known that the accuracy of prediction of weather is correct only up to one day prediction only. He gives an example of having a state of weather denoted by x=x_{i} (read x subscript i) and the time series of each state denoted by t(x)={t(x_{i})}. And the rest, certain properties that these parameter satisfied such that they can be used later during the calculations.

I would rather list out something that is interesting to know...

After the seminar, there is one professor asking about how fuzzy logic can also contribute to probability. Dr. Kennison then replied that fuzzy logic doesn't handle probability very well. And this is supported by another professor who works very closely on fuzzy logic. He elaborated, but I lost sights of his comments. hehehe... And next Dr. Kennison made a statement that topos is superior of fuzzy logic. I'm not sure why is that.

Another commend made by another professor saying that open sets are a good lattice structure (again I don't know why). That's why all of these worked very well. But I do know that open sets are one of the properties in the study of topology.

Reckless About Proof

Until now, the whole picture which I'm sure every student in this department has very well-verse in is at proving theorems, corollaries or a proposition. I, on the other side, are trying to find my individual internal personal connection with the idea of prove and satisfaction of proving. And I had to say that the chemistry is still not there.

I spoke to one of my friend and he mentioned that you need at least a year to comprehend yourself with the skills of proof. One cannot by any chance grab it instantly. Its more about getting attached to the whole idea of any particular concepts where later on your proof is well-defined (logically). Which I failed to feel it in the first place. I cannot start my proof, not until I read some of the hints. Meaning, I don't even know where to start. I've talked to my SV about my reckless about proof, and he did gave me notes on mathematical thinking. I looked at them, study, listing out important things and try to work out the exercises. It seems OK.

Then everything went wrong. Again. When I came back to reality, facing subject like measures, I feel dumb. The things I've learned is hardly applied to this part of subject. OK, this will not stop me. So I made a second move, to speed up my pace. What I did was to learn from any individuals who willing to show some of the skills/techniques. But yet as they spoke the same language (of maths), I feel terribly sorry for myself. So I think I need to go back to the canonical way. A book.

At the end I found that I have no basic in analysis at all. Supposed, I should have taken any functional analysis back then. Whoops, there's no point to mention it now.

Hey Jude

I'm not a big fan of the Beatles. However after listen to this song, I totally like it. It's really nice.

Enjoy...