What I'm doing Now

Last updated 23 July 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

I'm looking to buy a house. This is dominating a lot of my attention.

Last year, my wife and I had a daughter. She's adorable and perfect, although she tends to leak a little. On the other hand, she can now walk!

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.

Recent Travel and News

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.

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.