> Related to the ongoing thread about what is a professional... > > One characteristic of many professions is the development of a > specialized language. This facilitates communication among > members of > the profession and serves to exclude outsiders. > > An example I just received: > > "A directed graph (or equivalently its adjacency matrix A) > defines a symbolic dynamical system S_A, a shift of finite > type (SFT). In dynamics one naturally tries to categorize dynamical > invariants of SFTs (and related symbolic systems) in terms of > understandable matrix invariants of the nonnegative matrices > presenting them, and some theorem about which of those matrix > invariants can actually arise in the nonnegative case. Among some > successes, > there are difficult open problems." > > [I am adjunct faculty at a regional university and thus am on their > mailing list for upcoming talks in the Distinguished Lecturer > Series. > The above is the abstract of an upcoming talk.] > > I would be interested in seeing your examples of an abstract for a > lecture by a professional photographer! >
Bailey, on why he uses only one light: 'coz here's only one fuckin' sun. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
