Buildings and combinatorial representation theory


Below are some memorable quotes from some of the participants of the workshop. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to match each quote with the person who said it (a person may be matched with n quotes, where 0 <= n <= 3).

  • If we are losing information, we are not listening to the Mathematics.
  • A crystal would melt in the tropics.
  • Cross me out.
  • I also want to see Arun retire.
  • Affine building is not compact; this is a fact of life.
  • When the first fish got on land, it did not start by hunting down brontosauri.
  • Let us do some Soviet primary school mathematics.
  • You can only glue things that you can get your hands on.
  • Convolution is a little convoluted.
  • I'll move to an orthogonal color.
  • Allen Knutson
  • Anne Schilling
  • Arun Ram
  • Arkady Berenstein
  • Bernd Sturmfels
  • David Nadler
  • John Millson
  • Misha Kapovich
  • Monica Vazirani
  • Prakash Belkale
  • Shrawan Kumar
  • Tom Haines
  • Ulrich Goertz


last updated April 7, 2007