As there is a short break in the opera and Jochanaan may have a brief chance to leave the building with his head where it belongs, I reflected on the final report for my first ERC grant I submitted recently. I felt a sentiment of immense pride when wading through the collected works, amazed at the diversity and depth of ideas and results that my group members produced, ranging over different areas so beautifully that I had trouble summarizing them. From entropy and secret sharing (I already mentioned this) over spectra of groups to combinatorics of manifolds, from embeddings and simplicial depth and Lefschetz to resolution of singularities, I probably forgot most of it. I think I will have to devote more posts to what resulted, and to ongoing projects still rippling forth from it.
That said, very proud to have had the opportunity to work with all of you! And excited to see what comes next.
For a cup of coffee more 