Welcome to CJ's Home Page!
This homepage has been accessed
times, where K is the number of times it has been accessed before you accessed
it.
This page is dedicated to all the baby
lovers.
Total Number of babies produced so far: 3
Total Number of babies expected in due course: 10
Note in Dec 2000:
unfortunately the above lofty goal was not realized cos
the mrs reneged on her premarital agreement. The
author is keen to offer his healthy gene to any aspiring mother via IVF.
DISCLAIMER
But don't let that stop you from
making more babies.
This web-page is written
in the middle of my (premature) mid-life crisis, and
the crisis is worsening because of the following:
- when one gets no, and sometimes negative,
satisfaction from proving another frivolous theorem or writing another
frivolous paper,
- when one gets less than 3 hours of sleep
each night, trying to comfort a screaming (aifc audio player needed on your computer) baby who is
due to go for a hernia operation at the ripe old age of 7 weeks,
- when one has to put up pretentiousness and
sanctimony in the academia, albeit only a small minority, thank goodness,
- when despite receiving an
admittedly decent pay, one has to contemplate taking up a second job as a
check-out boy at K-mart just to make ends meet.
When one
is in such dire shape, any theorem that one comes up with is almost surely
going to be defective, and similarly anything one writes on the web-page is
likely to cause some upsets to some viewers. Therefore one cannot be held
responsible for heresies he wrote in his moment of weakness.
Only after you have
read, understand and comply with this, then you may read on.
Hit here for a
not-so-recent photograph.
Hit here for a
more-recent photograph.
Once upon a time, I was labeled a nerd. To find out why,
check out Carla, a
typical Caltech female, who used to sit
next to me in the Caltech
wind ensemble playing the tuba. These
days I try to detach myself from that image by engaging in all kinds of cool
things. (It appears to me that everything on the internet is either cool or
uncool), and presumably writing web-pages is a pretty cool thing. If you like
Carla, you should check out some really cool game that she plays.
How about some really cool tricks to make an atomic bomb which you may
use to get rid of your supervisor!
One of the many bumf I have here is in student advising. Over the
years, horde of students have invaded into the privacy of my office and kept
asking the same old questions: What sort of maths should I do? Can I get a job?
Is there scope for me to do a PhD? Most of the questions asked are pretty much
the same and I am now getting sick and tired in answering the same questions
over and over again. I now present the general purpose, fully Automated Student
Advisor, so that no student henceforth has any excuse to bother me anymore.
It appears that some
people think that the Net is only for DOM hungry of pornography. Just to get
you initiated, check out Miss July - December here.
Some of us are just bored and regard the net as the ultimate freedom
of expression, where no government can censor or police. Afterall, knowledge/information/intelligence is supposed to
be the singular weapon of destruction ( the I-bomb) in
the third wave civilization, and nowhere more potent can this weapon be used
than on the net.
Some of my MAJOR
research interests:
- training recalcitrant toddlers to do
the right thing.
- studying the pricing mechanism of a
volatile but crucial commodity.
- studying the complex dynamics of a 3-phase flow .
- speed jibe, wave
jumping, Looping,
and all them cool tricks.
Minor research interests
(if there is any time left after doing the above):
- Refer to my other not-so-cool web-page, Postscript format, PDF format if you aidn't
cool.
- If you want to vastly increase your nerdity
quotient , hit this link. note in November 2001, link malfunction?
- If you are a certified geek, how about
some light bedtime reading - CJ Goh and XQ Yang,
Duality in Optimization and Variational Inequalities, Taylor and Francis,
2002, ISBN: 0-415-27479-6, 329 pages, postscript format. pdf format. For copyright reasons, only
samples are presented here. This research monograph is published by Taylor and Francis in November 2001, so
please check them out. How about buying a few copies as great Christmas
presents (list price GBP40.00) to help out deprived academics?
I could really go on
forever with evermore cool stuff, but my job contract dictates that, like it or
not, I have to prove more frivolous theorems and write more frivolous papers. So, adios, unless you like to mail
me and tell me off.