Seminar

Well, I gave my talk today, and I think it went reasonably well. The audience wasn't large - five other faculty and two students - but that's about par for these seminars. I covered everything I wanted to cover in the allotted time and got a handful of reasonable questions; considering that my research (in classical geometry) is pretty far afield from those of the attendees - two statisticians, two analysts, and a combinatorist - that's about as good as could be hoped. Afterwards, one of the analysts came by my office. She's a hard-core applied mathematician - if you remember J., who did his thesis on the mathematics of chemotherapy, she was his thesis advisor - and really doesn't have much use for us theoretical types. Still, she told me that she had always thought geometry was boring, but what I said today looked very interesting. That was nice... (No word yet from the journal I submitted the paper to. Here's hoping their reaction is as positive!)