為什麼我到現在還沒睡

因為Wieslawa寄了一封信和我說，我明天要報告‧‧‧‧

剛剛去收信箱，他又回我說明天取消，because I'm not sure you're ready

我其實也不知道該說些什麼，溝通上好像有些問題，但又感到很無力，因為就算我熬夜，報告還是趕不出來…

我到底為什麼來到這兒?

Why Japan can win the WBC twice

At 3/22 a Japan baseball team broke American baseball fans' heart- Japan beats American in the semifinal and beats Korea in the final- Japan won WBC championship again. I think most people will agree MLB is the highest level league in the world, but they failed twice. Today I want to discuss this- first I will discuss the weakness of American team and second I will talk about why Japan can win the game.

Let me first discuss two different style of these two teams. American's baseball is powerful, and the hitter always full wing- even it's two strike zero ball. That's the different point when we look at Japan baseball team- they never full swing after two strike, and just contact the ball; besides, Japan focuses on the speed; almost all the players in Japan team can steal base. Of course many players in American team can steal, but not so many. Besides, there're many left hander hitter in Japan baseball team, it's the advantage since left hander hitter stand closer to first base and so they can combine this advantage with their speed; the infielder will under the pressure since evenif they get the ball maybe the hitter has arrived the first base.

Second, compared with American baseball, Japan baseball team is more displined. Every people knows what he shall do, not only want to get a double, home run; in many case they just want to get walk, and have all the base, give the pitcher much pressure; they will even use one out to get one run.

It looks just two different style of baseball, but it really matters in WBC. Let me mention the situation : it's the time before the season so professional players may not in their best condition and it's win or go home game- one game will determine if you are in or out. If players feel good, that's fine, they can still hit the ball out of the wall; but in many case they are not; hitters are still adjusting and the speed of the ball pithcers throw are less than that in the season. So we can see Japanse baseball style, which we can say " smallball" , is more suitable to win this game. As I said before, they don't want to hit a home run , but they will definitely get runs they shall have.

Maybe I shall mention one more point: Japan wants to win the game. I mean, of course every teams want to win the game, but baseball is the most popular game in Japan, they have a strong motivation to win the game.

Some good news is maybe next WBC game will hold at he time of World series; maybe at that time we can see who is the best baseball team in the world.

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It is hard to give a precise answer.  Beyond class field theory (in its cohomological/idelic form) and classical modular forms and modular curves, familiarity with Galois cohomology (such as Tate local/global duality -- see chapter II of Serre's book) and basic Galois deformation theory (as in the article of Mazur) will be assumed for the course of Kisin/Tiloouine, as will some basic Iwasawa theory (such as the elementary nonsense with Lambda-modules, etc., as in the book of Washington or perhaps the survey article by Greenberg) in the course of Skinner/Bellaiche, and for my course with Brinon on p-adic Hodge theory some preparatory notes will be posted by early March and it will be assumed that everyone has learned the basic concepts developed there.   Oh, and the adelic viewpoint on automorphic forms is sure to come up, and schemes and their cohomology will come up in an essential way is pretty much every course and 4th-week minicourse. But it's likely that many participants will have strong background for some courses and weaker background for others. In any event, the application process will probably be quite stiff, as I am expecting that the combination of the topics and the location will lead to a flood of applications.  One good thing is that the main courses (and hopefully the mini-courses) will have written-up lecture notes, so people who are not able to attend should find those to be useful once they are completed (probably within a year after the summer school ends, but hopefully earlier).

Note there is also a Park City program this summer on the arithmetic of L-functions, and that will have fewer prerequisites (in case the above seems like too much to you).  Regards, Brian 
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感謝孫大帥，讓我知道自已的愚蠢

待讀

Arithmetic Geometry: abelian variety from arithmetic viewpoint, Neron-Tate height?

Finite flat group scheme by John Tate

A first course in modular form( first part) + Shimura's book

Etale cohomology- not related to P-adic Hodge theory, but just for itself.

'In any case you'll know abelian variety more or less this semester, if you read this, you'll have strong foundation"

"Maybe we shall discuss some material before you go to Hawaii."

之前某種程度是一直在躲他，總想說現在這種程度其實是沒法和老師談數學的。但最近發覺自已讀書讀得太盲目了，就下定決心去找他，把心裡的話都說出來。

結論是我的判斷是正確的，這種程度的確是不能做數學，不過其實老師也沒那麼難溝通，把話說出來心裡頭也好受多了。要怎麼讀書讀書自己的想法而不是像背書一樣，要學得地方還很多。

Paul算是對我影響很深的另一人，雖然他是做交換代數，但他每次總能講到我能聽懂，每次我都會想，為什麼他能做到，我不能做到。

大膽地正面對決，和老師說要報告，結果現在什麼都看不懂，不過終於有進入軌道的感覺了。

Schedule

5/6日回台

5/19-22 在台北(于靖老師真的很厲害，請來的人就算不是最好，也是相當活躍的人)

6/14-7/11 在Hawaii參加summer school; 終於可以看到傳說中的Brian Conrad 和Skinner;就去被電一下再看看接下來怎麼走吧。還會碰到藍凱文，謝銘倫不知道會不會來。

7/12 Utah，老爸好像有點失望，因為待在台灣的時間很短…不過今年的我也只能這樣了。

Zhu Wang給了我一個小姐的電話

Yan cai Ellis USA Gateway Travel 1601 NW Expressway,Suite 101 Oklahoma  City, OK73118 Phone    (405)842 2919 Fax        (405)842 4014 free tell: 1-800-688-0988

算起來三張票大概快1300，不知道算貴還便宜(yoyo說他買馬航來回497…太強了，不過他是八月中回來)

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附上比價網站

http://som.twbbs.org/klee/study/index.html

http://www.chinesetravelers.com/ticket/ticket3.htm

Kitchen in the air

Hello everyone:

  Today I'll teach you how to roast a full chicken. First of all, you must have a chicken; you can buy it at Smith. After washing it, then let it dry because we want to spread some seasonings on it. There're thousands kinds of seasonings, you can find it on internet, or you can just buy a babecue source; my favorite one is garlic, honey and add some lemon juice. But the point is, nomatter what seasoning and sause is, you must spread butters on the chicken!! That's because butters can prevent water from vaporing too fast; also, evenif you don't want to eat chicken skins, don't cut it off until the roasting chicken is done. 

  Finally, I recommend you warm up the oven ten minutes before roasting the chicken; adjust the oven at 375 'F,  when putting the chicken into the oven, put the chest- side down. Wait for two hours, and enjoy your roasting chicken!!

  When you just bake a leg or chest, not a whole chicken, that's totally the same procedure as before, but I suggest you to use aluminum foil to cover it. Any way, enjoy your chicken!!

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讓我們用阿基師的一句話來作結

-蛋炒飯就是要吃蛋和蔥的香味

遜爆

今天交換代數課Paul有點掛版，信誓但但地講了我的想法，結果下課後就發覺是錯的…心情鬱卒中

寫在這兒當然是希望不要太多人看到…我一直不知道怎麼看待我和前老闆相處的這兩年…一方面我所有的數學都是自已學的…而且還走了很多冤枉路;當我重踏回數論時馬上就知道我當初為什麼會讀得這麼痛苦，因為我從來沒在number field上做過事情;(他不是有開galois cohomology的seminar嗎? 別傻了，他講的是基本中的基本，大概是講給他自已還有不會的人聽的)，那時唯一的差別就是報得好不會被罵，報不好會被罵…一直這樣循環。我學會了什麼，大概就是怎麼樣瞧不起別人，和被別人瞧不起…更嚴重的是被灌輸了很多錯誤的訊息，什麼Taylor好不好其實也不是很清楚，Hacon和Parimala在各自領域的地位是不能比的? 如果是無知那就算了，但一個學者竟然可以這樣睜眼說瞎話，想到我就覺得生氣。

但一方面僅管被利用，他其實對我還是不錯;最少我學到最重要的一件事，就是怎麼樣叫做把書唸好，怎麼樣叫做紮實; 更何況那些下流的話也只能對我這種意志不堅的人有用;其實也怪自已抗壓性不夠，在研二下時我看了很多電視，但那是不得不看，因為胃已經痛到沒法唸書了。至於我如果去跟dragon，去找于靖老師會不會比現在更好，那又是那一件事了。

或許人生就是這樣吧，沒有絕對的對錯，沒有絕對的盟友，讓他知道我現在跟的是Niziol他大概會說在 Utah不跟Hacon是在幹什麼之類的話，但很遺憾，我跟你不一樣，我只做我自已喜歡的事。