I just defended my dissertation. Thank you to Jeff, Jill, and Dinakar for being on my Defense Committee. In this talk, I discuss some of the ideas and follow-ups on my thesis. I’ll also take this moment to include the dedication in my thesis.
Here are the slides from my defense.
After the defense, I gave Jeff and Jill a poster of our family tree. I made this using data from Math Genealogy, which has so much data.
October 17, 2019 at 3:17 pm on Notes from a talk at the Maine-Quebec Number Theory ConferenceThanks Peter! You're right --- and it's a nice reference. 
October 7, 2019 at 4:03 am on Notes from a talk at the Maine-Quebec Number Theory ConferenceOmega results of this form using this method are presented quite nicely in Chapter 15 of Montgomery and Vaughan; they give applications towards sign changes of the Chebyshev psi function and of partial sums of the Mobius function. 
June 16, 2019 at 1:55 am on Choosing functions and generating figures for “When are there continuous choices for the mean value abscissa?”At first, we chose 2 because it was the other "obvious" point that we hadn't yet specified. We already controlled the values at 0, 1, and 3. But I later realized it doesn't matter what point we choose. What we're really doing is adding one extra degree of freedom and using it to minimize the L2 norm of the derivative ---
June 16, 2019 at 1:14 am on Choosing functions and generating figures for “When are there continuous choices for the mean value abscissa?”Why did you choose 2 for the pt in the L2 part? What if you chose 1.5 or something? 
September 27, 2018 at 3:55 pm on AboutI appreciate your taking the time to reply. The version of FreeCell I play online does count taking a card from the tableau (and the Freecells) as a move when adding them to the foundation. I never realized others did not. September 27, 2018 at 8:20 am on AboutI believe you are referring to: this post on MathSE. Yes, that's right. In the typical language, a "move" consists of one mouse-click-and-drag action. When there are open freecells, it is possible to move multiple cards using one mouse operation (as a shortcut to doing all the card moves individually). As an example, if all 4 freecells are open, you --- September 27, 2018 at 1:38 am on AboutI see nowhere to submit an email so I am asking my question here. On another site you answered a question about the average number of moves to solve Freecell. You gave an in-depth answer about the studies that had been done (thank you) which was 45. What I cannot comprehend is how anyone can move 52 cards, one at --- September 24, 2018 at 6:33 pm on An intuitive introduction to calculusThank you. You could also write $P(t) = ae^{kt + C_1}$. But this may give the impression that $a$ and $C_1$ carry different data --- but they don't. To see the equivalence, you can write $ae^{kt + C_1} = a e^{kt} e^{C_1} = (a e^{C_1}) e^{kt} = A e^{kt}$, where $A = a e^{C_1}$. There are two fundamental degrees of ---
September 23, 2018 at 9:50 am on An intuitive introduction to calculusGreat post! Thank you for taking the time to write this. Regarding the example on population growth, you state that if P'(t) = k*P(t), then P(t) = ae^(kt). But wouldn't a more general expression be: P(t) = ae^(kt+C1), where C1 is a constant? June 9, 2018 at 7:31 am on Math 420: First Week Homework and ReferencesYes, you're right. Thank you for pointing that out. I've now edited it.
That’s an amazing family tree! How did you make it?
Thanks John! The data is from Math Genealogy (which is amazing). I scraped this data with python and created a (data structure) graph. I added and edited some data by hand, such as creating the pairings between the married couples. Then I converted this graph into the DOT language specification, and used graphviz to create the graph itself. Finally I used $\LaTeX$ to create the labels and combined them together into one pdf. Each individual step is quite easy, even if en masse they seem quite hard.