Travel photos
- Photos from Southern Italy, Summer 2008.
- Photos and travel diaries from India, Winter 2006-07.
- Photos from Scotland, Summer 2005.
- Photos from Southern France, Summer 2004.
- Photos and travel diaries from South-West China, Spring 2001.
About me
- See a map of places I've been
- Browse my mathematical genealogy. My direct academic ancestors include a remarkable number of people I've heard of: Gauss, Euler, Leibnitz, Bernoulli, Fourier, Lagrange, Dirichlet, Poisson, Jacobi, Ohm, Klein, and more recently Tucker (advisor to Nash, Shapley and Gale) and AI pioneers Minsky, Pappert, Sussman and McDermott.
- My partner Judith Walker is a postdoc at UBC.
- My sister Allison Leyton-Brown is a composer, pianist, and musical director living in New York.
- I have two cats:
Pippin and
Mary.
Fun links
- A classic email forward: how to win arguments.
- A Mathematician's Lament: An excellent description of what the practice of mathematics is really like for working mathematicians, and a lament for how it's taught in the K-12 curriculum.
- Structured Procrastination: Useful time-management insights for academics. Amazingly, it won the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize in Literature.
- A Million Random Digits, published in hardcover by Rand in 1955.
- Photos from my research group's whitewater rafting trip in June, 2009.
Practical links
- Thanks to CFI, I have a 100-CPU cluster called Arrow. See its status or learn how to submit a job.
- Launch an SSH client in a Java applet.
- Download the Microsoft Terminal Server Client: [Browser | WinXP | EXE DLL DAT]
- Empirical Algorithmics wiki pages on CVS, LaTeX, Matlab, CPLEX, MySQL, timing runs
