Hey, lookit! I’m blogging about a conference somewhat near to when the conference happened!

I’m just going to write about a few talks. This is mostly because I ended up not taking as many notes this year, but also because writing up extensive notes on talks is a bit too time consuming. I found the talks by Paul Cuff, Sriram Vishwanath, Raj Rajagopalan, and others interesting, but no notes. And of course I enjoyed the talks by my “bosses” at UCSD, Alon Orlitsky and Tara Javidi. That’s me being honest, not me trying to earn brownie points (really!)

So here were 5 talks which I thought were interesting and I took some notes.

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