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A most dynamic day
Feb. 13th, 2004 09:31 amYesterday: Thursday, February 12.
A most dynamic day.
It started out rather ordinarily; what with me suddenly realizing how utterly and completely stupid I had been and amending my homework in commutative algebra with the note that Spec(B(x)k(p)) really is homeomorphic to the fibres f*^(-1)(p) - and thus everything I had been fretting about follows trivially.
And going at the next exercises, prodding at them, while lazily doing a lot of other things; as it usually is.
And then; after the first examinatory Lie seminar - just before the ordinary class hours begin - my thesis advisor shows up at my door, talking accusingly of "the saboteur" - i.e. my friend and almost-co-writer Alex; who works with the same thing - and who apparently just happened to solve the whole question. Wednesday evening. More or less as a side effect to his working through his Lie seminar topic.
Oooops.
So, now there is no MAJOR point in my thinking hard and long about the denominator degrees for 6 monomial generators; since he showed the proposition for any number of monomial generators. There still is value in the lattice generation program we have running; and in the (albeit slight) improvements I've done with it. But still, my thesis kinda evaporised with that announcement.
Until my advisor chimed in again - after the hastily called together extra seminar where he presented his work; just after the Lie seminar chunks. And said that "Hey, a computer program doing these explicit calculations would be nice to have. Can't you just hand that over to Mikael?"
So, now I'm going to build a tool to explicitly calculate the Poincaré-Betti series as a rational function given a characteristic, a number of generators and a number of monomials. Yay me!
Once that was all done with (and I was mightily .. unsettled, but in a good way, by then) I continue on to Stacken to hang out with people and talk to my landlady in spe; and 3-4 people dive at me throughout the evening, blaming me for the interactions they - as network technicians for KTH - have had with the Dean of Mathematics.
Thing is, at the organizational committée meeting for the European Congress of Mathematics, it turned out that apparently the network technicians wouldn't create any more mailboxes than already existed for the congress work. So I suggested that we go register a domain for the congress solely. The domain was registered - and then the registrator wanted to know what to do about it; and the KTH technicians noticed that they won't do DNS-hosting themselves for non-kth.se-domains.
We ended up buying DNS-hosting from the registrator instead - which solved most problems neatly. But it was interesting to be "assaulted" throughout the evening by person after person having been in touch with the mathematicians and their slightly garbled version of the events.
I ended up cuddling with S.
It was nice.
A most dynamic day.
It started out rather ordinarily; what with me suddenly realizing how utterly and completely stupid I had been and amending my homework in commutative algebra with the note that Spec(B(x)k(p)) really is homeomorphic to the fibres f*^(-1)(p) - and thus everything I had been fretting about follows trivially.
And going at the next exercises, prodding at them, while lazily doing a lot of other things; as it usually is.
And then; after the first examinatory Lie seminar - just before the ordinary class hours begin - my thesis advisor shows up at my door, talking accusingly of "the saboteur" - i.e. my friend and almost-co-writer Alex; who works with the same thing - and who apparently just happened to solve the whole question. Wednesday evening. More or less as a side effect to his working through his Lie seminar topic.
Oooops.
So, now there is no MAJOR point in my thinking hard and long about the denominator degrees for 6 monomial generators; since he showed the proposition for any number of monomial generators. There still is value in the lattice generation program we have running; and in the (albeit slight) improvements I've done with it. But still, my thesis kinda evaporised with that announcement.
Until my advisor chimed in again - after the hastily called together extra seminar where he presented his work; just after the Lie seminar chunks. And said that "Hey, a computer program doing these explicit calculations would be nice to have. Can't you just hand that over to Mikael?"
So, now I'm going to build a tool to explicitly calculate the Poincaré-Betti series as a rational function given a characteristic, a number of generators and a number of monomials. Yay me!
Once that was all done with (and I was mightily .. unsettled, but in a good way, by then) I continue on to Stacken to hang out with people and talk to my landlady in spe; and 3-4 people dive at me throughout the evening, blaming me for the interactions they - as network technicians for KTH - have had with the Dean of Mathematics.
Thing is, at the organizational committée meeting for the European Congress of Mathematics, it turned out that apparently the network technicians wouldn't create any more mailboxes than already existed for the congress work. So I suggested that we go register a domain for the congress solely. The domain was registered - and then the registrator wanted to know what to do about it; and the KTH technicians noticed that they won't do DNS-hosting themselves for non-kth.se-domains.
We ended up buying DNS-hosting from the registrator instead - which solved most problems neatly. But it was interesting to be "assaulted" throughout the evening by person after person having been in touch with the mathematicians and their slightly garbled version of the events.
I ended up cuddling with S.
It was nice.
