What I'm doing Now

Last updated 14 October 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

My family has just bought a house! Soon we'll live near Boston, instead of in Boston.

Last year, my wife and I had a daughter. She's adorable and perfect, she's walking and talking (though most words are "dog" or "dog here" or "dog dog dog").

I've recently accepted a job at Harvard Law. I haven't started yet. Expect certain aspects of this site to change.¹ ¹I'm very happy to talk about my job search experiences and other details.

Between moving and starting a new job, I expect that I will be radically less responsive to communications for the next several weeks.

Recent Travel and News

I'm typically near Boston/Cambridge.

I applied for the NSF AIMing grant. I'm happy to talk about it or share my application materials.

2025 happenings

I attended an LMFDB Workshop from July 14-18 at MIT.
I was at LuCaNT from July 7-11 at ICERM.
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.