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DPhil Applications Q&A
Abstract
Your chance to ask Mathematrix DPhil students about the process of applying to PhD programs, including written stages and interviews!
Your chance to ask Mathematrix DPhil students about the process of applying to PhD programs, including written stages and interviews!
A discussion on how race and ethnicity interact with the concept of merit in academia, based on sections from the book 'Misconceiving Merit' by Blair-Loy and Cech.
I study the large scale geometry of infinite groups and spaces, focusing on quasi-isometries, which are maps between groups or spaces that preserve the large scale geometry. Since quasi-isometries need not be continuous, distinguishing groups up to quasi-isometries can be challenging. This motivates considering invariants, that is, properties preserved under quasi-isometries.
Songs about other singers...
John Martyn wrote this in 1972 about his friend, the songwriter Nick Drake (1948-1974). The lyrics are here.