I continued my discussions with Terry of ISEPP this morning, over omelettes at Tom’s.
I’m scanning some of my notes from the meeting, which included me briefly indication why we might not couple “squares” with “to the second power” (or “cubes” with “third power”) because other, simpler shapes (triangle and tetrahedron) work better, at least in some special cases (all cases are :special”) — a point I feel past, having made it many times.
We reminisced about his dealings with various institutions, which were win-win in the sense that Portland enjoyed a strong lecture series, whereas sponsors got to advertise their sincere support for such a lecture series, and help out in other ways.
In cases where the sponsors were schools, Terry would make sure the invited speakers, big names in many cases, also made it to said schools.
We went through many cups of coffee.
