I’m not sure if this is 100% official yet, but the Hausdorff Trimester scheduled for this summer has been (unsurprisingly) postponed. This is probably no great surprise to many of you. We have hopes to reschedule it again (perhaps for 2022) if possible. Together with this update, this is the final unfortunate installment of this series of posts.
On the other hand, mathematics departments have already started to hold online seminars. I was chatting with TG and GB last night and one of them pointed me towards the MIT NT seminar which held it’s first online talk yesterday. If you have zoom installed, which you probably do since you are now expected to teach on zoom next quarter, it is really easy to connect. Bjorn announced that the plan was to continue the seminar online next quarter.
If anyone else plans to hold number theory seminars online, please leave a comment and I will add it to the list.
As a participant (currently in Bonn) in the ongoing trimester, I think you are making the right decision. The university is closing, and there are so few people here that the benefit of meeting everyone else is significantly reduced.
Two things:
1. Tell every junior participant who was invited to give a talk in one of the conferences, that the fact of the invitation is what needs to go on their CV (because that’s what will tell future evaluators about their scientific reputation).
2. Consider running the planned conferences online (say on Zoom). We have a conference going right now where half the talks are being given online, but the audience is entirely in Bonn because there was no advance setup. The online conference has the extra bonus that it’s not limited to those who originally registered to come to Bonn.