Happy new year! A couple of items of news:

First, we are very happy to welcome John Dougherty (UCSD) to UIC as a Predoctoral Research Fellow for the semester.

Second, talks will start in a few weeks – we have 11 lined up so far: Philipp Berghofer, Fay Dowker, Tiziana Vistarini, Tim Palmer, Laurent Freidel, Laura Ruetsche, Michael Miller, Karim Thébault, Samuel Fletcher, Alexei Grinbaum, and Nic Teh. Please join us (details above).