I’d been meaning to write a plug for my paper A self-dual integral form for the moonshine module on this blog for almost 7 years, but never got around to it until now. It turns out that somet…| Secret Blogging Seminar
On Wednesday, I asked several of my students what tools they use to collaborate online on their problem sets. Several of them mentioned Discord. I am currently trying to set up a Discord channel fo…| Secret Blogging Seminar
There has been a dispute running through mathematical twitter about diversity statements in academic hiring. Prompted by that, Izabella Laba has just written an excellent post, which affirms the im…| Secret Blogging Seminar
Jadagul writes: Got a draft of the course schedule for next year. Looks like I might get to teach real analysis. I probably need someone to talk me out of trying to do everything in R^n. A subseque…| Secret Blogging Seminar
My CAREER grant includes funding for a thesis-writing fellowship for graduate students who have done extraordinary teaching and outreach during their time as a grad student. If you know any such g…| Secret Blogging Seminar
I’m throwing this post up quickly, because time is of the essence. I had hoped someone else would do the work. If they did, please link them in the comments. As many of you know, the US House…| Secret Blogging Seminar
Readers may recall that during the 2013 “peak-Elsevier” period, Elsevier made an interesting concession to the mathematical community — they released all their old mathematical co…| Secret Blogging Seminar
A few weeks ago, I e-mailed Will Sawin excitedly to tell him that I could extend the new bounds on three-term arithmetic progression free subsets of $latex (\mathbb{Z}/p \mathbb{Z})^n$ to $latex (\…| Secret Blogging Seminar
There seems to be a rule that all progress on the cap set problem should be announced on blogs, so let me continue the tradition. Robert Kleinberg, Will Sawin and I have found the rate of growth of…| Secret Blogging Seminar
It is far from clear to me that Springer’s copyright agreement (quoted below) is compatible with posting your paper on the arXiv under the CC-BY license. Happily, a Springer representative ha…| Secret Blogging Seminar