I met John Black at the
Continental Open Chess tournament in April of 1993. Since then he has
become one of my best friends. We've studied chess together, went on long
walks and hikes, went white-water rafting, and gotten stuck on the side of
halfdome in Yosemite Park. He is currently a professor of computer science
at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is one of the few people in the
world that can instantly tell you what the 50th digit in the decimal
expansion of pi is: just ask him!
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Don Lawrence was a
fellow graduate student at Berkeley. We have done many things together,
including playing softball, bowling (he witnessed my lifetime high game of
243), gaming, an truly understanding the phrase, "birds of prey know
they're cool".
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I first met
Juan Migliore via e-mail during
the summer of 1994 while I was writing my first paper. I wasn't to meet
him in person until 1997 in Barcelona, and then I saw quite a bit of him
while at the University of Notre Dame (where he is a professor
of mathematics). I've played soccer and softball with
Juan, as well as doing some mathematics, going to Notre Dame football
games, and sharing some birthday parties.
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Frederico Xavier is not just
"The man", but "The man behind the man". I met him while I was
at the University of Notre Dame - we taught a calculus course together and
played some soccer together. Fred is great to work with as a
mathematician - we wrote a paper together which I consider to be one of my
most fun collaborations.
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The algebraic geometry gang at Berkeley
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Federica Giummole
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Kirby
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Roxana Smarandache
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Steve Nollet
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