Конференция "Молодая математика России"

[posic]

http://www.mccme.ru/poncelet/ddconf2008/index.htm
Круглый стол "Судьбы российской математики"! :)

Comments

[chaource.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you were a Deligne prize winner of last year. Congratulations!

[posic.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Actually, the story was this. User roma told me about the Deligne contest in 2005 and tried to convince me that I should apply. I read the guidelines suggested by the organizers for writing the proposals (see http://www.mccme.ru/pdc/ ) and found them impossible to comply with. I did not believe I could invent a single research project, spread to a long period of time, with past results confirmed by publications and future plans for the next 3 years, including the approximate formulations of results to be obtained. I was just in the process of switching the research area (from Galois cohomology to semi-infinite cohomology) and for the former I couldn't invent detailed future plans, while for the latter I didn't think I had enough past research.

But in the Fall of 2007, I was lucky to have a long paper/book on semi-infinite cohomology half-written, with some results written up already and some other results approximately conceived, to be included in the book in the near future. And user hippie57 showed me a reference in an arXive preprint to my old notes posted to livejournal.com, written in transliterated Russian (http://positselski.livejournal.com/314.html ). And I found also another reference to the content of my notes in an arXive paper, this time without the livejournal URL, but simply as "private communication". So I sent the half-written book to the arXive and wrote the proposal, declaring the old notes in transliterated Russian and the new arXive preprint to be past research, and the material to be yet included in the book as future plans for 3 years. And it worked.

By the Fall of 2008, I had the book essentially finished and almost all the presumed plans for 3 years completed. So I would be unable to repeat the trick this Fall, if I had to. I no longer have any plans for the future, and cannot even pretend to have them.

The conclusion: grant proposals in mathematics are a ridiculous thing.

[chaource.livejournal.com]

Thanks, this is an inspiring story. :)

[bbixob.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

> a reference in an arXive preprint to my old notes posted to livejournal.com, written in transliterated Russian (http://positselski.livejournal.com/314.html ). And I found also another reference to the content of my notes in an arXive paper...

these preprints' authors did not bother to let you know that they referred to you...oh well.

[posic.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Mathematicians do not generally inform the authors of the papers they refer to. No such tradition exists.

[josephinaa.livejournal.com]

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