Dave's conference topic

I'll be speaking on partially ordered sets, with a look to potential modeling applications.

A Partially Ordered SET, or POSET, is a set of objects with an associated partial order (reflexive, transitive, anti-symmetric). A common partial order is the integers, and the less-than-or-equal-to operator for the ordering. I dunno if there's any way to model the brain with this stuff - the reflexitivity might make this tough - but this'll be a pretty good group to test it out on.

I2K5 conference announced!

That's right - we're sneaking in a conference this year just under the wire - Dec 31st, 2005. We'll have the usual speakers, and the possible addition of Dr. Matt Wolff-Meyer. Topics to include some stuff on brains and some stuff on math - just like usual - and a discussion of next year's conference location and date. Then to the drinking!