Re: Math 120 Metu
Irmgard Verzi
According to the decision of the University Administrative Board, the minimum course capacity in the Summer School is 20. If the number of registered students for a course is below 20 (except for the courses that must be kept open through the justified decision of the Administrative Board of a Faculty/Graduate School/Technical Vocational School of Higher Education), the course is closed. Thus, a course may be closed upon examination after the end of the registration period.
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I received my Ph.D. in mathematics from Rutgers University in 2016, under the supervision of Simon Thomas. I am currently an assistant professor at Middle East Technical University in Turkey, from which I also received my B.S. degree in mathematics in 2010. My research interests are mainly in mathematical logic, more specifically, in set theory, descriptive set theory and its applications to other fields of mathematics.
This workshop is a forum of mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and physicists performing research on finite field arithmetic, interested in communicating the advances in the theory, applications, and implementations of finite fields. The workshop will help to bridge the gap between the mathematical theory of finite fields and their hardware/software implementations and technical applications.
We will partially support a limited number of young researchers and students for attending WAIFI 2010. This support will allow them to listen the conference presentations and attend coffee breaks with a significantly reduced registration fee. If they pay extra, they may also buy the conference proceedings and attend the other social activities.
From Ars Mathematica I learned about an article at Ars Technica describing a scandal involving plagiarism of theoretical physics papers by about 20 different people, some of them students at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Many of the papers were refereed and published in well-known journals, and one made it into what is now perhaps the most well-known particle theory journal, the Journal of High Energy Physics.
There are also other papers by some of the same authors which the arXiv does not list as plagiarized (published in Nuclear Physics B, here, Classical and Quantum Gravity, here, International Journal of Modern Physics, here and here) .
Besides this, some remarks on the arXiv plagiarism check. Last year or so, I noticed they were fiddling around with something because upon submission of a paper I got a message saying my paper was rejected because it seemed to be a copy of an already existing paper. I had a look at this other paper (turned out I knew the author), and there were about no similarities except that I accidentally had picked the same title (well, it was a proceedings article, how creative does one have to be for that?). So I sent a complaint to the arXiv guys, and they resolved the problem (very promptly and within only a couple of hours I have to say.)
One way or the other, the first some pages of their recent papers still have close resemblance to mine, but they have rearranged the sentences noticeably. I guess this is because they ran into problems with the arXiv filter, and so I really welcome it.
Good work is rare. Plagiarism merely reinforces existing work. One could speak of the stress that belies the academic professions to publish. With Universities and Colleges expanding, the pressure for new works taxes the professions.
Let me say what will happen next. The universities(up to now four) involved in the massive ring of paligiarism will open investigation about the case. They will impute the paligiarism to graduate students. Their advisors will say their names were added on papers without their consent. The graduate students will be discharged from the universities. So the case will be closed.
This year 1st time METU is not in the list of the top 500 universities in the world. It seems that METU is going down in many ways. In this or that department , you see a russian or an azerbaijani writing a paper and putting his name and the names of a few more on it then having it printed. Next you see these people promoted to associate professorship or full professorship. To have a little fun ,I plagiarized the following from a page in the math department in METU :
Robert Phelan Langlands, CC FRS FRSC (/ˈlŋləndz/; born October 6, 1936) is a Canadian mathematician.[1][2] He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory,[3][4] for which he received the 2018 Abel Prize. He was an emeritus professor and occupied Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, until 2020 when he retired.[5]
Langlands was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, in 1936 to Robert Langlands and Kathleen J Phelan. He has two younger sisters (Mary b 1938; Sally b 1941). In 1945, his family moved to White Rock, near the US border, where his parents had a building supply and construction business.[6][3][1]
He graduated from Semiahmoo Secondary School and started enrolling at the University of British Columbia at the age of 16, receiving his undergraduate degree in Mathematics in 1957;[7] he continued at UBC to receive an M. Sc. in 1958. He then went to Yale University where he received a PhD in 1960.[8]
Langlands' Ph.D. thesis was on the analytical theory of Lie semigroups,[10] but he soon moved into representation theory, adapting the methods of Harish-Chandra to the theory of automorphic forms. His first accomplishment in this field was a formula for the dimension of certain spaces of automorphic forms, in which particular types of Harish-Chandra's discrete series appeared.[11][12]
He next constructed an analytical theory of Eisenstein series for reductive groups of rank greater than one, thus extending work of Hans Maass, Walter Roelcke, and Atle Selberg from the early 1950s for rank one groups such as S L ( 2 ) \displaystyle \mathrm SL (2) . This amounted to describing in general terms the continuous spectra of arithmetic quotients, and showing that all automorphic forms arise in terms of cusp forms and the residues of Eisenstein series induced from cusp forms on smaller subgroups. As a first application, he proved the Weil conjecture on Tamagawa numbers for the large class of arbitrary simply connected Chevalley groups defined over the rational numbers. Previously this had been known only in a few isolated cases and for certain classical groups where it could be shown by induction.[13]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1972 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981.[23][24] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[25] Langlands was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.[26] He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993[27] and a member of the American Philosophical Society 2004.[28]
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