What I'm doing Now

Last updated 15 April 2024

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.

Research Travel and News

I'm typically in either Boston or Providence.

• On April 22nd, I'm giving a talk at the Brown Algebra seminar.

I have limited travel plans in the coming months. This summer, my wife and I are expecting a child and I hope to be very dedicated to that.

Recent Travel and News

2024 happenings

• 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'm currently actively working on several projects.

• Check out code4math, a new community for mathematicians, programmers, and enthusiasts. We have a zulip chat! I'll talk more about this elsewhere.
• I'm working with Jeff Hoffstein and Bertrand Cambou on a project concerning biometric cryptography. Our idea was a finalist for the Innovation of the Year award at Innovation@Brown! I'm keeping a bit quiet about details now, but I'll be very excited to talk about it later.
• The LMFDB is about to have many more Maass forms than before. Stay tuned.

Teaching

I'm not currently teaching.

Fun

• 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 10 percent of the streets in Suffolk County, which includes 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.