I’ll be on a panel discussion about teaching and course design at Virginia Tech 29 August 2016, 11:00-14:00, Torgersen 1100:

Feel free to pop in any time — it’s going to be an open panel format so you can move from one discussion to another.

Yaling Yang and I will be representing Electrical and …

OK, genealogy, and academic genealogy at that, are perhaps not the most stimulating of topics. But throw in scientific and mathematical giants such as Euler, Bernoulli, Lagrange, Poisson, Hadamard, and a cameo by Leonardo da Vinci himself, and what began as a dry exercise turned into a …

So, these past twelve months have not been the greatest. A lot has happened since last August, so I thought I’d give an update on what has transpired.

A little over a year ago, an Aunt, who had been fighting cancer, was told to make her final life preparations.

Because her sister and niece (my wife) …