I’m a 35 year old guy living and working in Sydney with my partner and our cat. I moved here with my partner from Brisbane in 2000 to follow my PhD supervisor to the University of Sydney. I submitted my PhD in pure mathematics in April 2005 and graduated in May 2006.
I have been working as a policy advisor in national electricity policy since 2007, and prior to that worked in educational testing for nearly 3 years.
This blog records some of my thoughts since 2005. Politically, I’d broadly be socially liberal and economically centrist, and realist in international relations (especially since idealism, or more correctly, the incompetence of certain idealists, has failed so dramatically - e.g. Bush in Iraq).
(Last edited Saturday 26 June 2009)
July 12, 2007 at 4:16 am
Hello,
I came to your website while search for some of the paper written my instuctor Dr. Nathan Geer here at Georgia Tech. I am a beginning student in Math and Engineering and took Dr. Geer’s introductory Calculus Class in the Spring.
He is an enthusiastic and deeply committed classroom teacher. My mathematical maturity is not developed to the point of understanding his work, but I am excited that you find his papers worthwhile and interesting. It is great that you got to meet him at your conference, you probably share my feeling that he is a very personable and approachable guy. My hope is that he will remain here at Tech, but I suspect that many Schools will be interested in him when he completes grant work here.
Your site is great, I have it bookmarked and visit often. We share many similar interests in the areas of Economics and Politics (my bias is Libertarian). Maybe when I complete a few more courses I can weigh in on some of the Math topics.
Keep Blogging, I enjoy the insites.
Ted
P.S. Terrance Tao at UCLA is a rock star. Australia should be very proud of him.
October 28, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Sachi, didn’t realise you were a Brisbane mathematician! Just added you to my new group blog’s blogroll.
June 22, 2009 at 1:00 am
Hi! Sacha Your site is not only interesting but it is also a huge learning for me. I visited it often. I share with you similar interest in Politics but my sister who is finishing her PHD in Maths shares with you in mathematics. Keep up your good work, I am sure a lot of people visit your site.
June 27, 2009 at 12:02 am
Thank you for your kind words Anne. All the best for your sister – I and many others empathise with her!
August 19, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Hallo Sacha, it is me Anne Sikimeti, Just to let you know that my niece Ma’u Sikimeti received her PhD. in Mathematics from Rutgers University in 2008, now she is doing her Post/Doctorate in maths under the supervision of Chris Woodward. Her dissertation was titled “The Multiplihedra in Lagrangian Floer Theory.” Sikimeti’s research interests include symplectic geometry and topology and algebraic structures that can be built with tools from symplectic topology. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology she is working on Lagrangian Floer theory, quilted Floer theory, and functors for Lagrangian correspondences. She will be a Post-doc fellow at MSRI for the Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology year long program in 2009-10. After this she will be going to Barnard College to work with Dusa McDuff. My sister has not finish hers yet. It is so funny I do not understand the Mathematics languages when we communicated and I am totally lost in the dark. So Sacha you people must be special to know these words for I am lost.
Keep up the good work! You are doing a good job.