I just wanted to let you know that I’m currently preparing my defense for the so-called “Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches” (in French) that will held the 3rd of Octobre 2018, in Caen / France.
This is an important milestone in my research career, and I need to focus on it completely.
I’ve already written a habilitation thesis (in French) and I’m now designing the slides for the talk (as, apparently, the reviewers found the manuscript good enough for a defense).
That is to say I’ve really no time these days for doing G’MIC-related stuffs, so please excuse me the delay in replying to the forum messages, doing bug fixes, or fulfilling other requests !
In fact, we have very cool news to share about the G’MIC project, and exciting stuffs and filters to come, but I’ll take time to talk about that next month or so.
Until then, I’ll probably be silent as if I were dead ! (but will read the messages anyway).
David, I skimmed through your thesis. Skimming, because I neither read much French, and certainly less math. However, my appreciation for you contributions has soared. Thank you so much.
I definitely feel your pain, as I am up for tenure over here, which as far as I understand it is the most equivalent thing to Habilitation that we have here in the US academic system. I submitted my tenure file last week, and now it is working its way up through all the committees. I should know by April if I get it or not!!
PS, once you get it, you can finally be called Homo habilis! *
*(this is a terrible archaeology/anthropology pun that I am sorrynotsorry for saying!