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Is mathematician the best job?
                            
                            
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                                Apr 17, 2014 10:15 AM
                            
                        
                   From our physicist colleague Sandro Scandolo we got a pointer to an   article   in the Wall Street Journal claiming that the best job in 2014 is, yes, mathematician. Not bad. 
                  
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                Bitcoin
                            
                            
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                   Curious about the math behind Bitcoin? Have a look at this 
 
talk  for undergraduates by UT Austin Prof. Felipe Voloch.
                  
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                ICTP Math Section Activities 2014
                            
                            
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                                Dec 30, 2013 01:10 PM
                            
                        
                   I am experimenting with the free map creation website  zeemaps  to keep track of relevant information. As a test here is a  map  with all the activities of the Math Section for the year 2014. You ...
                  
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                Happy New Year 2014!
                            
                            
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                                Dec 29, 2013 12:54 PM
                            
                        
                  
                     A group of us from the math section at ICTP went out for dinner to celebrate the end of 2013 to   Ristorante Capriccio  on Piazza Libertà in Trieste. This was one of Ramadas' favorite restaurants in ...
                  
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                Panama - Costa Rica
                            
                            
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                                Dec 09, 2013 02:07 PM
                            
                        
                  
                     Last October   Claudio Procesi  and I went to Panama and Costa Rica, where we gave a couple of talks on general topics in Algebra. My  talk  was on "Algebra and the real world".   In the same spirit ...
                  
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