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This popular annual event returns to KCL on 17th May 2024. This one day event features a range of papers of original research in all areas of film culture in Britain and areas affected by …

Previously: Part 8. It’s the penultimate week of the course, and up until now we’ve abstained from using the axiom of choice. But this week we gorged on it. We proved that all the usual …

Kaisa Matomäki, Maksym Radziwill, Fernando Xuancheng Shao, Joni Teräväinen, and myself have (finally) uploaded to the arXiv our paper “Higher uniformity of arithmetic functions in short intervals II. Almost all intervals“. This is a sequel …

I am really excited to share here the news that I will be moving to Utrecht University, starting from January 1. I am also very much looking forward to integrating in the vibrant Dutch algebraic …

I’m living the “Trouble with Tribbles” episode of Star Trek. The plot of this episode revolves around cute, little, furry animals introduced on board the star ship Enterprise as pets. A problem arises when they …

The swallows have departed. The tall, dry meadow grass rustles in the nearly empty air. Now and then a sparrow suddenly flutters up from beside the path, then flies off toward the trees surrounding the …

The cover is kind of "busy," but I shall try not to judge the book by its cover. The book is Every Living Thing, The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life, by Jason …

The 38th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference is being organized by the Department of Economics at Queen’s University Belfast and will be held at the Hilton Belfast, 4 Lanyon Place, Belfast (BT1 3LP), from Thursday, …

I read Sam Freedman’s Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It with a mixture of nods of recognition and gasps of disbelief. It’s all too apparent that – as the subtitle puts …

Y’all remember Ka-Bala, the mysterious toy with the power to predict the future? While I cannot predict the outcome of baseball games or someone’s love life, years of immersing myself … The post I have …

This review of a Nottingham restaurant is a break from the Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage. I occasionally wonder what Japanese people think of the Japanese food they encounter outside the Home Islands. There must …

In 2015 I made a keyboard guide to help people find the keys on their muddled-up keyboards. At the time I used Apple computers myself so without really thinking too much I made it as …

I went back to Steven Appleby's exhibition with my friend Joan last Wednesday. It's such a funny and subversive collection of work. I was just admiring the quality of the lines when he appeared with …

Don’t get me started on the fact that if you do login, you’re taken to the store homepage instead of the specific page you were trying to visit in the first place …

For the last nine years, the high point, for me, of the annual APTI conference has been the student competition run by the Preservation Engineering Technical Committee. This year, In Montreal, was no exception. This …