fredagen den 9:e mars 2012

Alan Turing at 100



Nature have published a special issue to commemorate the 100th birthday of Alan Turing. His contributions to mathematics, computer science and biology are unrivaled in the 20th century.

Online issue

torsdagen den 23:e februari 2012

Oxford

Last week I went to Oxford to give a talk at the Maths department and to visit my friend Jacob Scott currently studying for his DPhil there. I must say I enjoyed the trip in many different ways: great academic atmosphere, lovely town, live rugby and nice company. Some photos:






onsdagen den 2:e november 2011

Tree of Life



The posts on the blog have unfortunately been far and few between, but here's a tip about nice homepage about evolution and the tree of life:



fredagen den 27:e maj 2011

Kepler Workshop in Heidelberg

Last week I attended a highly interesting workshop organised by Marcello Delitala in Heidelberg. The topic was "Managing complexity, reducing perplecity" and included talks by both mathematicians and biologists. Some visual impressions:







Gösta Mittag-Leffler


The old man himself:


Tampa

A couple of weeks ago I visited the IMO group in Tampa. Here's a picture of me in their "collaboratorium".



torsdagen den 20:e januari 2011

Books, books and books

Just received my latest shipment of books.