Acknowledging a great man I have never met Ahmed Ali-Eldin, HLF15 participant. Yesterday, I sat down around a table for dinner with Leslie Valiant, the inventor of machine learning, Tony Hoare, one of the fathers of programming languages and the inventor of quick sort, … 26. Aug 2015 | By Guest blogger | 0 comments
Pomp and Circumstance at the Opening Ceremony The importance of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum really hit home for me when I saw how much effort was being put into making the event special for both the laureates and young researchers. From the smallest … 25. Aug 2015 | By Gail Carmichael | 0 comments
Why So Few Mathematicians? (Followup) In a previous post I discussed the question of why relatively few mathematical laureates came to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. The question has continued to be much discussed at the meeting, and I have heard … 25. Sep 2013 | By Dana Mackenzie | 1 comment
Why So Few Mathematicians? I wasn’t going to write about this. I was going to keep it to myself. But then Klaus Tschira, the chairperson of the HLF Foundation, mentioned it in his welcoming speech, and he didn’t mince … 23. Sep 2013 | By Dana Mackenzie | 0 comments
