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TL/DR: </br>
If you're gonna check out some tech projects, go with <a href="https://katzenpost.network">Katzenpost</a> or maybe <a href="https://impakt.network">IMPAKT</a>, I hope to actually get back to that some day.
The code for IMPAKT is backed up <a href="https://github.com/evainfeld/impakt-front">here (front)</a> and <a href="https://github.com/evainfeld/impakt-back"> here (back)</a>
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If you are looking for a sample math paper, try <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.03418.pdf">Uniform Avoidance Coupling of Simple Random Walks</a>. It really is the coolest.
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For sample teaching materials, either <a href="m314.html">Discrete Mathematics for Engineers</a> or <a href="m20.html">Probability</a> will do fine.
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There's a short blurb below, but I made a more thorough <a href="family.html">page about my family's academic legacy</a>, because I'm... coping with insecurities, I guess?
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Here's a session we gave at the last Chaos Communication Congress - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ev4r-aZmFM">"Adventures in the design of Anonymity Systems"</a><
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</br></br> <a href="https://impakt.network">IMPAKT</a>: We're bringing together some great makers and thinkers from the hacker world and the world of progressive politics to make IMPAKT, a platform for trade unions and grassroots organising.
</br></br> <a href="https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/GrantProposals-2018Q2/files/2107447/Z-Cash.Voting.pdf"> A ZCash-based voting technology.</a> This implementation of ZK-Snarks could let us have both voter secrecy and verifiability, something that has not been achieved in voting technology to date. Electronic voting is rightly controversial, and will never be secure enough to reliably implement in national elections. <a href="e_voting_faq.html">Please see the FAQ.</a> (with A. Olchowik and B. Owczarek.)
</br></br> SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET This is a game that trains the player to detect fake news, logical manipulation and propaganda. <a href="https://edukaton.github.io/druzyna-pierscienia-mobiusa/start">Prototype (in Polish)</a> It needs a way to add one's own examples, and a cleanup. (With A. Olchowik, P. Migdał et al.)
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<p class="text_column">SOME OF THE RESEARCH</br></br>
<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.03418.pdf">Uniform Avoidance Coupling of Simple Random Walks</a> - is it possible to check if you can program two tokens to walk on a graph s that they never collide BUT if you only see one it looks like a simple random walk? For some graphs we can, and I found an algorithm to test whether you have one of these graphs. In polynomial time! </br></br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN2PKA1xb4Q">Combinatorics and k-anonymity </a> A theoretical reason k-anonimity is a good way to construct anonymity sets - rather than just what we know how to do in practice. </br></br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07111">The Total Acquisition Number of Random Geometric Graphs</a> (with Mitsche, Prałat) </br></br><a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/foci14/foci14-infeld.pdf"> Symmetric Disclosure: a Fresh Look at k-Anonymity</a> FOCI'14, with <a href="https://2459d6dc103cb5933875-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/foci14/infeld.mp4">presentation video</a>. Social networks are very sparse, so k-anonymity gives very little cover traffic for communications unless we group users in rather large sets. This is an often ignored problem. I propose a way to use the sparsity and use this property to our advantage.</br></br>
<a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.05627.pdf"> Counting Restricted Dyck Paths Through Random Walks</a> - a cute, new probabilistic way to arrive at a well known formula with Chebyshev Polynomials.</br></br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05658">Common adversaries form alliances: modelling complex networks via anti-transitivity</a> (with Bonato, Pohkrel, Prałat), I'm listing it to say that I'm aware that this paper is wrong. The "result" is an artifact of the arbirary way the network is modelled, and vacuous. I have *feelings* about the way papers like this get accepted for publication easier than many more valuable ones.</p>
<p class="text_column">TEACHING MATERIALS </br></br>
Discrete Mathematics for Engineers 2017, Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) University: <a href="m314/slides/01_propositional_logic.pdf">propositional logic</a>, <a href="m314/slides/02_predicate_logic.pdf">predicate logic</a>, <a href="m314/slides/03_set_theory.pdf">set theory</a>, <a href="m314/slides/04_induction.pdf">induction</a>, <a href="m314/slides/05_recursion.pdf">recursion</a>, <a href="m314/slides/06_divisibility.pdf">divisibility</a>, <a href="m314/slides/07_congruences.pdf">congruences</a>, <a href="m314/slides/08_crypto.pdf">RSA</a>, <a href="m314/slides/09a_crypto_proofs.pdf">RSA - proofs</a>, graph theory <a href="m314/slides/09b_graph_theory.pdf">I</a>, <a href="m314/slides/10_graph_theory_II.pdf">II</a>, <a href="m314/slides/11_graph_theory_III.pdf">III</a>. Each of these is a 3h lecture. 3h math lectures are a terrible idea, don't try it. Here are the <a href="m314.html">remaining materials</a>, including worksheets for each class.
</br> </br> <a href="https://math.dartmouth.edu//archive/m20f14/public_html/index.html">Probability</a> 2014, Dartmouth College: this is by far the course I am most proud of. <a href="m20.html">here</a> is a backup of the lecture notes. </br></br> First steps in Java (with A. Olchowik and B. Owczarek): <a href="/coding/Lesson_1.pdf">I</a>, <a href="/coding/Lesson_2.pdf">II</a>, <a href="/coding/Lesson_3.pdf">III</a> and <a href="">IV</a>.</br></br> An introductory security and privacy video tutorial, with <a href="https://alxd.org/pages/about.html">Paweł Ngei</a> (in Polish) for a large pro-choice and feminist mutual aid movement. </br><iframe width="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IN2PKA1xb4Q" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<br> Dobra, zostawię to mimo że to był 2016 i kilka rzeczy jest nieaktualnych, więcej jest nadal przydatnych. Poza tym wzrusz, to jeszcze były czasy zanim ludzie się totalnie poddali jeśli chodzi o autonomię w sieci.
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<p class="text_column">EDUCATION </br></br> PhD in Mathematics, Dartmouth College (2016). Supervisor: <a href="https://math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/">Prof. Peter Winkler </a></br> PhD thesis: <a href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/1811951892">Applications of Matching Theory in Avoidance Coupling and Anonymity Systems</a></br></br>
London School of Economics (MSc in Applicable Mathematics, 2011, with distinction)</br>University of Cambridge (Part III / Master of Advanced Studies in Mathematics, 2009)</br>King's College London (BSci in Mathematics, 2008, first class honours)</br></br>
<img src="images/herby.jpg" width="95%" align="center"></br></br>WHY I QUIT ACADEMIA</br></br>
I left academia after my first postdoctoral fellowship. The reasons are largely the same as they are for most would-be professors in my generation: it just wasn't worth the struggle.
But like most, I found that it is easier to make an impact and work on solving the problems that matter once I quit. It's the hacker world that taught me intellectual courage, not academia. The most liberating thing I ever learned was to not wait for permission or validation to work on solving a problem. Especially when it comes to the big problems. It's hackers, not academics, who shoot for the sky.
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<p class="text_column"> POLITICS</br></br> I feel called to empower the public to resist surveillance. While the violent conflicts, the corrupt economic system and climate catastrophe may be more direct problems, surveillance and every day control is an obstacle to us finding solutions. It is having profound effects on our social structure and solidifying destructive power systems worldwide. "If information is power, then privacy is freedom."<br>
</br> And as a mathematician, this is where I feel most empowered to effect change. In the past I have used my skills to aid freedom-minded projects, and provided computer and operational security assistance to progressive organizations and NGOs.
I've also been involved with the American Civil Liberties Union, Bernie2016 campaign, the Stop C-51 iniatitive in Canada, and somewhat extensively with the Polish progressive movement Razem, as well as various mutual aid, open education and autonomous organizations.
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But I never lost hope that since the world is shaped by what's digital, we can shape it in turn by building our technology better. That the right kind of math can really go a long way. Most recently this hope is expressed through <a href="https://katzenpost.network">The Katzenpost Project</a>.
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<p class="text_column">FAMILY </br></br>There is plenty on the web on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Infeld">Leopold Infeld</a>'s legacy as scientist, educator and peace activist. <a href="grandfather2015.html">My Grandfather and Einstein</a>, originally published on now-gone Fiat Physica may serve as a personal retrospective. Also, here is the full text of <a href="https://ia800302.us.archive.org/15/items/evolutionofphysi033254mbp/evolutionofphysi033254mbp.pdf"> The Evolution of Physics </a> by A. Einstein and L. Infeld, as well as the text of the <a href="https://pugwash.org/1955/07/09/statement-manifesto/">Russel-Einstein Manifesto</a>, which remains relevant today.</br></br>
Some day I hope to upload scans of my grandfather Leopold's correspondence with Einstein, but there's a lot of it. In the meantime, here is a bit of history in the letters from <a href="letters/joliot.pdf">Frederic Joliot-Curie</a>, <a href="letters/russel.pdf">Bertrand Russel</a> and <a href="letters/kissinger.pdf">Henry Kissinger</a>. It felt so good to find out that he publicly disagreed with Kissinger even before that mofo bombed tf out of Asia. Proud of you, Grandpa.
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My other grandfather is the Polish writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Hen">Józef Hen</a>.</br></br>My grandmother Helen Schlauch (later Infeld) recieved <a href="https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=42785">a PhD in Mathematics at Cornell</a> at a time when few women pursued mathematics and her sister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Schlauch">Margaret Schlauch</a> was a linguist of note specializing in Norse and English literature.
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<a href="Dr Eva Infeld evainfeld@riseup.net-(0x483AE6D2A9B1E233)-public.asc">Here's my GPG key</a> for evainfeld (at) riseup (dot) net</br>
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Together with my partner, Brett, we dealt with the pandemic in a somewhat irresponsible way - we took advantage of it to spend time in places that
would otherwise be crowded and prohibitively expensive, most notably French Polynesia. I documented some of it int this <a href="https://piratesofsouthpacific.github.io"> travel blog.</a> You can judge but we have no regrets.
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Pop-scientific content:
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A stirring (if scientifically slightly outdated) commentary on the hardships of academia in song form, shot at the AEI in Potsdam: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPw-q8RYucE">No Higgs [At the LHC]</a>, full credits in description.
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A <a href="/images/ble.jpg">cartoon</a> for some of my anonymity work by Eleri Harris of <a href="http://elerimai.com">elerimai.com</a>.
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You can also find me on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/evainfeld.bsky.social">BlueSky</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@quaithe">Mastodon</a>, and a few of the social networks with ads on them too but I recommend the first two, truly.
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I invite you to reach out to Brett for audio engineering, sound design and music production, or to check out his objectively really awesome <a href="https://zaga.bandcamp.com/">music on Bandcamp.</a> We try to avoid Spotify, but you can find it <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2TBJle3dsOIA3xOdnAIa3x">there</a> as well.
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