What I'm doing Now
Last updated 23 May 2025
This is a now page. It is a written version of what I might say if we met in person and you asked me what I'm up to. The date at the top is important: it helps the reader determine if this is a now page or a then page.
Big News
Last year, my wife and I had a daughter. She's adorable and perfect, although she tends to leak a little.
I don't have an academic job lined up after September 2025. I'm working out what this means, but I don't have a concrete plan yet. (I'm happy to talk about this).
Research Travel and News
I'm typically in either Boston or Providence.
I have more limited travel plans than normal.
- I applied for the NSF AIMing grant. I'm happy to talk about it or share my application materials.
- I anticipate unofficially participating in the Algebraic Points on Curves workshop at ICERM.
- I'll be at LuCaNT from July 7-11 at ICERM. I'm giving a short talk on Maass forms in the LMFDB there.
- I'll be at an LMFDB Workshop from July 14-18 at MIT.
Recent Travel and News
2025 happenings
- In May I went to a wedding and vacation in France. My daughter loves croissants and could not get enough.
- On April 22-23, I gave a colloqium at Swarthmore and a talk at the Philadelphia area number theory seminar.
- I was in Washington DC a couple of times in February and March.
- I applied for the AI for Math fund from Renaissance Philanthropy but did not get it.
- I gave a lightning talk at the Brown University Algebra seminar on February 3rd, too.
- I was in New York City January 15-18 for the annual meeting of the Simons collaboration. I gave a (different) lightning talk there.
- At the Joint Math Meetings in 2025, I coorganized a Special Session on Mathematics Informed by Computing.
2024 happenings
- On November 19th, I gave a seminar at LSU.
- During the week of November 11th to the 15th, I'll be at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics workshop on murmurations.
- In October, I spent a couple of weeks at Harvard's machine learning and math program (especially the number theory weeks).
- On April 22nd, I'm giving a talk at the Brown Algebra seminar.
- During the week of April 8th, I was in NYC. But not on April 8th, as I was actually in Vermont looking for totality in an eclipse. And it was awesome.
- During the week of April 1st, I was in Scotland.
- I was at Lean for the Curious Mathematician at CIRM.
- I co-organized of the session Arithmetic Geometry with a View towards Computation, at the Joint Math Meetings.
- During the week of January 8th, I was in NYC attending a conference on computational number theory at the Simons Foundation.
2023 happenings
- I am a co-organizer of a workshop that will be held at AIM from 4 December to 8 December, 2023: Open-source cyberinfrastructure supporting mathematics research. Our registration is filled up, but if you are interested in the broader problems, let me know. I'm sure there is lots to do.
- I was at Maine-Quebec (again) this year. It was wonderful seeing so many familiar faces.
- I was at Lucant from July 10th to July 14th, and at the Murmurations hot topic event the week before.
- I returned to Marseilles, France in early May.
- I was at AIM (in San Jose) in early March.
- I was in Marseilles, France from late February to early March.
2022 happenings
- I was at Maine-Quebec on October 15-16.
- I was at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics roughly from 24 October to 18 November. This is at Stony Brook, NY.
- I was at the LMFDB Modular Curves Workshop, even though it is in the middle of my stay at Stony Brook.
- I was at the Joint Math Meetings in Boston from 4 January to 7 January. I am not presenting this year.
- I was in New York City during the week of January 9th to January 13th. This includes attending the annual meeting of the Simons Foundation.
Research
I've posted a lot of papers on the arxiv recently. I'm trying to tie up a lot of loose ends and have a lot of other work coming down the pipeline.
Teaching
I'm not currently teaching.
Fun
- I'm planting another apartment porch garden. I'm excited. Last year was very successful.
- I've been biking a lot. I'm using a site called Wandrer to track individual streets that I bike, and I'm on a quest to bike (or run/walk) every street (scope to be determined later). So far, I've completed a bit over 15 percent of the streets in Suffolk County, which includes Boston. And I've completed all of my local area of Boston.
- I make my own soda. Think soda jerk. What this means is that I make syrups (typically fruity, less sweet than store bought soda) and have a CO2 tank that I use to carbonate water (typically at a bit more than typical carbonation). Our current favorites are grapefruit soda and rhubarb soda.