It's that moment again, when you find out you haven't won a Fields Medal.
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), held every four years, is in Philadelphia next week and you can watch with colleagues as we are streaming the opening ceremony in L3 from just before 2 p.m (when the medals are announced). As well as the Fields, there are other prestigious medals such as the Chern and the Abacus, so it's well worth a watch.
One of the pleasures of Oxford is walking across to Port Meadow, open grassland unploughed for 4000 years where cows cool their cloven hooves in the River Thames (known as the Isis here in Oxford) and people wild swim alongside swans and geese. Idyllic (except for the hundreds of teenagers). But we're mathematicians, so we have other watery things on our mind.