Federico Poloni

Pisa, Italy

https://fph.altervista.org

Numerical linear algebra. Mainly matrix equations and their applications (control theory, applied probability).

(This profile was written for Mathoverflow, but Stack Exchange insists on copying it over verbatim to other sites, where it makes less sense.)

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What is the use of percent signs (%) at the end of lines? (Why is my macro creating extra space?)

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Prohibited item forgotten in hand luggage: what to do with it?

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E-mail address to use in publications

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What's the point in "the paper is structured as follows"?

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How should bathroom breaks be handled during written exams to avoid cheating?

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Why was the battle set up outside Winterfell?

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Document requiring infinitely many compiler passes?

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Does "corresponding author" carry an implied meaning?

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Why no vertical-mode Knuth-Plass?

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Is URL rewriting in e-mail a sound security practice?

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Inadmissible theorems in research

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How can I deal with a lecturer ridiculing me in front of class for making a mistake?

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Whether to tell his prospective employer that a new male post doc opposes affirmative action for women in academia?

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Access to scientific articles that cite mine after leaving academia

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Am I required to hand out private encryption key to head of institute?

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Examples of notably long or difficult proofs that only improve upon existing results by a small amount

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Is it appropriate for a professor to require students to sign a non-disclosure agreement before being taught?

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Paper rejected based on one very short wrong comment

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What programming language should a professional mathematician know?

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When refereeing a paper, stating I am not an author of suggested literature

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An example of a beautiful proof that would be accessible at the high school level?

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What is the best "last slide" in a thesis presentation?

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How to deal with this rejection email from the journal Mathematics of Computation?

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Double blind peer review when paper cites author's GitHub repo for code

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TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 removal for Stack Exchange services

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Should I use the university or personal account for note-taking?

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"Dressing down" to impress in academic settings

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Why does Friedberg say that the role of the determinant is less central than in former times?

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How to react to a student’s panic attack in an oral exam?

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Is it possible to remove date in the title page of Beamer

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17 camels trick

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Mathematical software wish list

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Distinguish starting journals from predatory ones

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Can I bring a spouse along for a conference?

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Which ranking is more meaningful for post-doc students?

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Adjective order in academia: "Italian young adults"

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I believe a publisher is infringing copyright when reproducing a figure I created. What can I do?

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