Announcements

Good news has been trickling in at a decent speed the past few days.

• All my thesis evaluation reports have arrived as of yesterday. In three weeks I can start taking my oral exams, and in a month, my thesis defense is scheduled.
  
• All the events in the previous bullet have been scheduled today. I'll be tested on
  
  
  
  • homological invariants in commutative algebra on July 8 at 11.
    
  • cluster computing on July 9 at 13.
    
  • Thesis defense on July 17 at 14.
    
  
  
• Gunnar Carlsson at Stanford tells me that the ONR grant he wants to hire me on is coming through. As soon as the paperwork at Stanford gets done, he'll write the formal invitation, but I am to view it as a done deal already. So - come autumn, as soon as my visum clears, I'm going to California.
  

So, I'm about a month away from a doctorate. And less than half a year away from a multi-year postdoc at Stanford.

Life is good. Intense. Stressful. But essentially good.