Deadlines and projects

[michiexile]

My life, in the span of a few weeks, just went from leisurely plodding along to ZOMGWTF!!!!!

These are the more or less fixed deadlines I have ahead of me, for papers for which there is still research to be done:

July 1, 2009

Discrete and Computational Geometry. The Journal paper to accompany our SoCG paper.

CfP not yet posted, but expected deadline: end of June

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA09). The "4-corners" paper on dualities in persistence

July 15, 2009

Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). The applications side of the circular coordinates project.

In addition to these, I also have a sequence of projects running, but without actual paper deadlines set yet:

1. The Topology of Politics. I recently got hold of a potential data source for the European Parliament vote data, which makes this active again.
   
2. A-infinity algorithmics. This has been receiving WAY too little attention from me lately...
   
3. Curve reconstruction, 0,1-stratified spaces and recovering group actions. People are doing stuff based on my ideas and without me having to work for it. Almost kinda scary!
   
4. New release for jPlex. Should happen before the fall hits...
   
5. CULT - jPlex replacement library in collaboration with the team that brought us CGAL.
   
6. Periodic dynamical systems analysis with persistence tools.
   
7. Data clustering using geometric simplicial complexes.
   
8. Book project: Introduction to Homotopy Theory
   

Soooo, yeah, anyone have any good ideas for massively parallel project management? :-P

ETA: the book project joint with Gunnar Carlsson

Comments

[thette.livejournal.com]

Sleep is for tortoises?

[michiexile]

Something like that!

It all gets even more ... interesting when I look at my schedule up until these deadlines roll around, and notice that, well, I have 5 conferences, and visiting scholar status in 3 different places, with budding or existing collaborations in several of them... Being on the road sure is a lot of fun, but it might not be the most efficient way to get work done.

[amerikabrev.livejournal.com]

And you have ME! ME! Time-requiring gorgeous wife!

[michiexile]

Oh, I don't know about that. You're pretty lean in the long run - sure, you require maybe 30 minutes a day of telephone chit-chat, and a week or so of intense attention every odd month or so ... but really, compared to the time investment of having you around all the time? Not that heavy a load!

[amerikabrev.livejournal.com]

*purrrr*

[culfinriel.livejournal.com]

You are a research and publishing dynamo!

[michiexile]

Which is, to me, to some extent, flabbergasting. I feel like I'm just dabbling along, more likely to sit and play silly flash games than to Do Work of some sort...

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion /
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed /
The hands acquire shakes /
The shakes becomes a warning /
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion...


With apologies to the anonymous scribe who cribbed it from Frank Herbert...

Luck! Know how it is with insane work schedules. :-)

[michiexile]

And, alas, I don't like the taste of the Beans of Java. And I've forsworn sodas for the summer. So .. ehhh .. I guess I should go buy a bottle of caffeine pills?

[michiexile]

Also, I am nowhere near your insanity, sir, and I hope I will stay far far away from that...