Scott Caplan's blog http://blog.scottcaplan.com Gens Una Sumus Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:50:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en In Loving Memory of a Legend: Burt Kaufman http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/07/08/in-loving-memory-of-a-legend-burt-kaufman/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/07/08/in-loving-memory-of-a-legend-burt-kaufman/#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:35:30 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan Friends & Family New Categories Math Education IMACS http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/07/08/in-loving-memory-of-a-legend-burt-kaufman/ Burt Kaufman passed away yesterday. I had the privilege of being taught mathematics and computer science by Mr. Kaufman and of studying under the IMACS curriculum for ten years. In the course of those ten years, he enriched my mind and my life, as he did for countless students, parents and fellow teachers throughout his storied and successful career.

Burt Kaufman appreciation

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]]> http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/07/08/in-loving-memory-of-a-legend-burt-kaufman/feed/ Welcome to the Read/Write Web! http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/01/02/welcome-to-the-readwrite-web/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/01/02/welcome-to-the-readwrite-web/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:03:08 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan Friends & Family Links New Categories Welcome http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/01/02/welcome-to-the-readwrite-web/ My friend Alex Lee just started a blog. He of course did this after having witnessed the enormous success of this one…..

Since I imagine that many of my friends will be starting blogs at unspecified times in the future, I’m also making this a new category.

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]]> http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/01/02/welcome-to-the-readwrite-web/feed/ For check, for mate and for Yale. http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/24/for-check-for-mate-and-for-yale/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/24/for-check-for-mate-and-for-yale/#comments Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:34:08 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan Friends & Family Chess New Categories Yale Chess http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/24/for-check-for-mate-and-for-yale/ I got a call from my friend Neeraj Singh last weekend. I was so excited by the news that only subcite training for the Blackletter Law Journal an entire week later brought me down enough to finally write up this glorious information.

The chess club has been packed for the last two weeks. So much so, in fact, that Neeraj could hardly find a place to sit down! Even better, AOB (NB: the schedule there is outdated) has 18 signups for the semester from the Dwight Hall Bazaar, about two-thirds of which Neeraj figures are promising, in addition to the current AOB volunteers.

And Neeraj has already started work on the Police Athletic League tournament this semester. Now for the news (as I heard it):

  • Howard Nero and the kids at MicroSociety are going to start going to some USCF-sanctioned tournaments, and get ratings! David Lyons ‘08 and Jaison Oliver ‘09 are going to be helping some of their best kids train, so they’ll be ready to compete for glory at the CT Open (see below).
  • Amistad high school (a new school in New Haven that Yale is heavily involved in starting, partly in hopes that it’ll become a feeder school for Yale) is bringing in Jim Celone (Yale ‘83 and the President of the Connecticut State Chess Association) for work on developing a chess club there. Right now the school has 50 students in 9th grade and no 10th graders. Sounds pretty cool.
  • The Yale College Chess Club will be sending volunteers to a middle school in Hamden starting this semester to start a chess club there.
  • Jim Celone will be putting on the CT Open in March in the Lanman Center at Payne-Whitney gymnasium! I’m hoping to see some Yale-trained teams winning at Yale in March!

But for all this news, Neeraj still didn’t know anything about how the team’s doing this year. So I called Dave Wang ‘08, the ever-impressive, rarely-sober team captain, and asked him if we have any good freshmen. I’ve always said that the club needs one good player a year, and we certainly got that this year. Among the freshman class is a master-level player from Philly. And as if just to prove that it’s a small world, he’s friends with Matt Traldi who was our board 2 until he graduated this year. I’m looking forward to seeing the team’s games on live broadcasts and then live here in Cambridge for The Game (which will also be put on live broadcast)!

And of course, since this is still filed under Chess, I don’t have much to say about Kramnik and Topalov except I’m glad that in a couple of weeks, the chess world will once again have a world champion! Gens una sumus.

Of course, if I left out some detail and you’re reading, please feel free to comment on it through the blog, or email me the error.

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]]> http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/24/for-check-for-mate-and-for-yale/feed/ Yale Football begins http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/16/yale-football-begins/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/16/yale-football-begins/#comments Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:35:58 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan New Categories Yale Football http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/16/yale-football-begins/ I’m listening right now to 960 WELI’s (sorry WYBC, I couldn’t figure out the site) live online coverage of San Diego @ Yale. If you’re on a Mac, you may need this little bit from Flip4Mac.

San Diego is up 7 - 0 at the end of the first quarter.
Since this is my first post in the Yale Football category, it’s also filed under New Categories.

UPDATE: We lost miserably, 43 to 17.

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]]> http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/16/yale-football-begins/feed/ New Categories http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/08/27/new-categories/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/08/27/new-categories/#comments Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:12:50 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan New Categories http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/08/27/new-categories/ The first new category to be announced in the Category of New Categories is that of New Categories. That is not to say the Category of New Categories in the “Category Theory” sense of the word but rather in the Wordpress sense of the word, since for one thing, while I may have objects of the category, I have no idea what the morphisms would be. Actually, now that I think of it, if I could only get that intersect plugin to work properly, I might be able to come up with the morphisms, but I’d have to expand the range of objects. But why would any one care about such a Category?

If you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, this may or may not help.

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