I have spent the last two months at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University in the UK, in mathematical heaven. International centres like the Newton Institute operate six-month-long~1 research programs to bring together groups of people with similar interests, who arrive and depart at different times, whose interactions and questions constantly inject new ideas into on-going discussions. Out of such mergers grow beautiful ideas and, sometimes, breakthroughs.
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