Expecting Godot not to Come!

En attendant Godot

Eric Shanteau, who was a member of US Olympic Swim team, heard the three of the most chilling words just one week before the US Olympic trials: “You have cancer.” Regardless of his misfortune, he decided to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he posted a personal best time in the 200 meter breaststroke. After returning to his hometown, he underwent surgery and has become a legendary canc...

Hidden signals of climate change in intertidal ecosystems: What (not) to expect when you are expecting

Godot and the New Physics

Samuel Beckett’s play of 1949 is a landmark of modern theatre. Two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, await the arrival of the mysterious Godot. He does not come, although other sinister characters pass through. The tramps pass their time in meaningless activities and talk. Described by Beckett as a ‘tragicomedy in two acts’, the play is conventionally regarded as a tale of existentialist angst foc...

Expecting Many

The determiner many is analyzed relative to a notion of expectation that is introduced into contexts employed in the theory of generalized quantiiers. Issues concerning intensionality, vagueness, ambiguity and context change are considered along the way.

Brown Representability Does Not Come for Free

We exhibit a triangulated category T having both products and coproducts and a triangulated subcategory S ⊂ T which is both localizing and colocalizing, and for which neither a Bousfield localization nor a colocalization exists. It follows that neither the category S nor its dual satisfy Brown representability. Our example involves an abelian category whose derived category does not have small ...