A teatime conversation
At the department’s tea today, I asked Dr. Frenkel if he’d also be going to the Oporto meeting. He was Khovanov’s advisor, and one of his current students is working on something very similar, so it wouldn’t be unexpected. He’s not, but he said he was confident that they’d be interested in taking me up on my offer to speak on my bracket extensions.
I’ve never been able to read him very well. He wrote one of my letters, which he wouldn’t have done if it wouldn’t be good, but he’s always been a a bit.. distant. Despite his professed confidence I’m not going to get my hopes up or anything. It’s a relatively short meeting and my topics are somewhat tangential to the main thrust. Still, it would be nice to be invited to talk in that sort of forum.
