Wow, I ended up spending the last hour
   updating my CV to apply for a job at
   Nottingham, where Cremona is - it isa

Excellent, go for it!  I bet you'd like living in England again
and Cremona is way cool too (seriously, he is). 

   tenure track thing prefering an
   aritmetic geometer; I decided I ought to apply,
   even though I am past the dead line.

I saw the advert for that job and wished I could apply,
but realized I am way too young.  

   I just emailed Noriko, my supervisor Nick,
   and Zagier to ask if they could write
   references; gosh, I hate doing that,
   it's scarey that they'll just say 'No!'

Don't worry about that possibility.  If they said "No" then
they'd never be able to ask you to prove their conjectures,
and then where would they be!?

   Wwo, I better run to the graduate course now;
   after yesterday I got officially given the job
   of 'TA' ing for it - ie, leading the afternoon
   session where the graduate students go over
   it.  So I better not miss it!

Let me know how it goes since I guess I'll have to do the
same sort of thing in a few weeks!


   I'm at Priceton now.

I've never been there.  What is it like?

   I'm going to give a seminar today on
   'the intermediate Jacobian of some Calbi-Yau three-folds'
   and I'll talk about what's in that paper, ie,
   put to, butnot really including stuff about the
   computations, but I will say we use your programs to

Well, that's probably not the interesting part really.

   actually compute the integrals.

Thanks!

   my Ph.D. longest ago, though I'm not quite oldest,
   and I'm sure some of the graduate students know far
   more than me, but I guess I just had more confidence
   to explain stuff about basic things about modular forms.)

Go Helena!

   but a couple of other people had been invited, including
   Deligne, who sat next to me, which I thought was pretty

Wowzer. I wish he were coming to utah but he's not on the list. 

   I was sitting next to him I wanted to take the opportunity
   to at least say something to him.  It seems amazing he is
   still pretyt young, his work seems so fundamental, I'd
   almost imagine he'd have to be dead.

What did he SAY!?  Did he tell you anything about his conjecture
on rationality?  L(s) = (rational number) * Omega, for s critical?
I wonder if the cases I worked out were perhaps some which motivated
him to make such conjectures (along with Beilinson) in the first
place?

   What happened with Coleman?  Maybe you found someone else
   with a car to drive him?  

He convinced me to drive his car, even though I have no license.
He picked me up, but was late because he was having problems
with his MS today.  Then we were late to the airport and waited
5 hours for the next flight.  It was quite a lot of work at times
and stressful, but we also got to talk about a lot of mathematics.

   In England, once you get a licence,
   it lasts until you are 70.   I guess that is not the case in
   US.

In Arizona it is, but in Cal it only lasts 3 or 4 years. 

   Anyway, I am skipping the undergraduate lecutre today, since
   I am going to prepare my talk!

Good luck.

William