24 Sept 02 -- Went to first day of meetings (2 hrs).
Set up personal webpage for REACH.
Action Items: Homework problem. Prove the recurrence
relation for matchings in a ladder graph (1,2,7,22; see Sloan).
17 Oct 02 -- Reading this week: 3 hours (random stuff
from bilinear forum, frieze patterns). Spent ~2hrs "playing"
with tilings of cylinders/mobius, etc. Previous weeks: ~22 hours
total reading stuff jim gave us and and working on homework-ish
problems, 10 hours reach meetings. hours these 2-3 weeks:
35; total hours 49
24 Oct 02 -- reading/futzing w/stuff in readings: 5 hours
(mostly spent looking at one-pagers, playing with cylinders and
polyhexes.)
meetings: 4 hours. this week: 9 hours. total so far: 58 hours.
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31 Oct 02 -- meetings: 4 hours. typing up minutes for
hex group: 2 hours. reading conway/lagarias (and looking up group
theory stuff): 3 hours. playing with height functions: 1 hour.
this week: 10 hours. total so far: 68 hours.
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-- oops... seem to have misplaced november and december in
some other file... i'll put it back as soon as i find it.... --
8 Jan 03 -- meetings: 4 hours. typing up minutes for
hex group: 1 hour. trying to convert problem to various equivalent
problems: 3 hours. (made lots of colorful multigraphs.) total this
week: 8 hours. January total so far: 8 hours.
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4 Jan 03 -- missed today's meeting. spent some time
trying to attack the algorithm side of the problem again. it
seems like there ought to be some way to reduce the problem! :-(
anyway, 2 hours today, 10 hours so far in jan.
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ps -- sorry no real summary of what i did -- i'll keep better
records, i promise...