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There is a French expression that I have been thinking of lately, " à Pâques ou à la Trinité ". It means "at some indetermina...

After getting settled in Paris and adjusting to my new department at Ecole Normale Superieure, I may now be ready to resume blogging. I will...

How large should the font be for a blog? How many characters per line? Should comments be nested or chronological? Should they be numbered? ...

For CNRS, good informal advice can be found in this text written by Bruno Durand a few years ago: here . In French, more recent information...

Consider the graph whose nodes correspond to triangulations of a convex n-vertex polygon and whose edges correspond to a "flip" of...

JUST IN: The deadline for ACM STOC 2013 submissions has been extended to Monday, Nov 5 2012 5:00 p.m. EST. The change has been announced o...

Pour information: le département d'informatique de l'ENS aura très probablement un poste de maître de conférences à pourvoir pour ...

If you are a foreigner interested in applying for a job in France, how does it work? Here is my understanding. (The rules change a little bi...

Nati Linial is giving a talk in Lille. As I am typing, he is stating an elegant combinatorial result and open problem, that I had never see...

Etienne Ghys, a famous French mathematician in dynamical systems, is giving a general audience talk in front of me in Lille as I type. He ad...