Azimuth News (Part 7)

In 2023 the director of the Fields Institute asked me to lead a program on climate change. For quite some time I’ve been meaning to say what happened to that.

Briefly, I quit when I realized that I couldn’t get myself motivated to do the job, no matter how hard I tried.

It turned out the job was mainly to apply for grants. There were various options for what these grants could be. At the small end, a grant could be for a meeting or series of meetings at the Fields Institute, focused on a spec...