Miscellaneous

Here I report a list of things I wish I had known before I started my PhD. If you are a PhD student at the beginning of your journey, I hope you can find these suggestions helpful.

For conferences and workshops around the world:

• Ravi Vakil's page Upcoming conferences in algebraic geometry;

• Kiran Kedlaya's page Conferences in arithmetic geometry.

The mailing list eager-gen shares updates about anything happening in the European Algebraic Geometry community.

The mailing lists am-l and gqt-l will keep you posted about news in the Dutch Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory community.

Are you a lazy LaTeX typer? Then you might find Detexify and Q.uiver helpful.

The images in the banners of this website are the States of mind, a work of art by Umberto Boccioni. The first three, realised in 1910 with a divisionist technique, are currently at the Museo del Novecento of Milan. The second three were realised one year later, have a strong cubist influence and are located at the MoMA, New York. They treat the subject of the travel around the moment of the departure: the respective titles are The farewells, Those who leave and Those who stay.