Jessica Young's home page


I've left Harvard (at least for now!). This semester I am affiliated with UIUC and UBC. You can visit my new page at the site listed below.

 

MATX 1220 e-mail:jessica at math dot ubc dot ca
Math Dept, University of British Columbia web: www.math.ubc.ca/~jessica
Vancouver, BC V6& 1Z2 phone: 604 822-6609

 

 

A small list of (mostly mathematical) friends: Clifton Ealy, Byunghan Kim, Lady Godiva, Rick Kenyon, Julia Knight, Gerald Sacks.

Scraps and personal stuff


Summer 2003
Preliminary notes for a workshop on abstract elementary classes (set up for the participants).
Animations for the group configuration theorem (joint work with Kim and DePiro).

My parents have photo albums at smugmug. I have a personal web page at shellgirl.



"However long we live, life is short, so I work. And however important man becomes, he is nothing compared to the stars. There are secrets, dear sister, and it is for us to reveal them." - - Caroline Herschel, 1750-1848.



Three common forms of meditation: focused attention, where you train yourself to focus on a single object for long periods of time, loving kindness, where you practice changing responses of anger and irritability into compassion, and pure awareness, where you learn to be open to whatever is present.