The ILAS Board approved a proposal to hold the 26th ILAS Conference in Kaohsiung, in the South of the island of Taiwan, June 23–27, 2025. The main organizers are Jephian C.-H. Lin (National Sun Yat-sen University) and Matthew M. Lin (National Cheng Kung University).

“Graphs and Matrices,” an ILAS Special Session at #JMM2024 that highlights the rich interplay between matrix theory and graph theory. See buff.ly/3DUUs33 ILAS

“He is in that tiny echelon of athletes who not only transcend a sport but transform it”

reup the campbell’s soup commercials with jason kelce and his moms

“what people thought were stories were fragments from shattered wholes, the patterns, the brain waves, of a certain man at a certain time in his life, the record of his controlled and uncontrolled inner life: therefore all writing was autobiography, wasn’t it?” -Joyce Carol Oates

this is still a good idea 🦉

concept: chile con carne but you put corn in it and call it chile corn carne

ncaas: drawing lane 3 for a 200 prelim is extremely unfair and they should not use it, 3 people per heat; sean dolan looked great for Villanova Track & XC; on a run over winter break Gary Martin told me the uva dmr would be up there, too bad the mile prelim is so soon before

We strongly encourage you to submit your research papers to ELA, the Electronic Journal on Linear Algebra. ELA fits the category of "Diamond Open Access" since it is free of charge both for authors and readers. ilasic.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=…

prediction (c 2030): quincy wilson becomes the first human to run 400 meters in under 43 seconds

This week at AIM: "High-dimensional phenomena in discrete analysis"

kate grace is an inspiration for a mid 30s parent #lagrandprix

bednarek hates lyles lolol

“His youth was like a Fourth of July rocket — consuming itself in its display” - Joyce Carol Oates

did the swarthmore crew paint the newly resurfaced paris track 🤔🤔

“there’s no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them”

2024 reading: the year of Joyce Carol Oates

two pieces of miscellaneous info: in december the president of the ncaa testified to congress that there are under 10 transgender athletes in the ncaa; the department of education enforces title ix

mon: tried to prove theorem tu: tried to prove theorem wed: tried to prove theorem th: tried to prove theorem fri: theorem false

“I was in the period of my greatest success, I was publishing two books a year, and selling well. Reading and writing had become a career, and, like all careers, it began to burden me”