What I left out of my post on knot homology was, perhaps, the elevator pitch (if you’re in an elevator with a mathematician who already has some background). I’m giving a talk tomorrow whi… more →
Secret Blogging SeminarBen Webster wrote 2 months ago: What I left out of my post on knot homology was, perhaps, the elevator pitch (if you’re in an … more →
Ben Webster wrote 2 months ago: One of the conundra of mathematics in the age of the internet is when to start talking about your re … more →
Scott Morrison wrote 5 months ago: I’ve just uploaded a paper to the arXiv, Man and machine thinking about the smooth 4-dimension … more →
Noah Snyder wrote 5 months ago: The European Math Society Publishing House (a non-profit publishing company which also publishes the … more →
Ben Webster wrote 7 months ago: My tendency to write slideshows instead of actual posts continues. If you like to see oodles of subt … more →
Ben Webster wrote 8 months ago: A while back, David wrote a post describing how to produce the Hecke algebra, and I described in com … more →
Ben Webster wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been too lazy to write in detail about the progress in my research (well, I am writing si … more →
Ben Webster wrote 1 year ago: So, in my first paper based on a blog post (well, loosely adapted), Catharina Stroppel and I have fi … more →
Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: So, I’m in lovely Edinburgh, Scotland (everyone I’ve told about this said “Scotlan … more →
Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: I’ll just note at the beginning, this post is a bit of an experiment. At this point, it is abo … more →
Joel Kamnitzer wrote 2 years ago: I have some rather specific questions about the MOY knot invariant which have come up as Sabin Cauti … more →
Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: The next ingredient in my paper with Geordie is understanding a bit about Soergel bimodules. Soergel … more →
Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: I finally got around to writing a bit about my paper with Geordie, and realized that this was consid … more →
Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: For those of you still wondering whether I’ve made it home yet, the answer is: nope. I’m … more →
Scott Morrison wrote 2 years ago: Leaving aside the issue of thorny question of the correct plural form of canopolis, lets try and get … more →
Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: I hope our readers haven’t been too expectant about awaiting talk blogging which has not been … more →
Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: Since I went into quite a bit of detail about Saturday’s Gukov talks, I feel a bit obligated t … more →
Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: Between conferences, (because two weeks worth of talks on the week days just wasn’t enough) Se … more →
Noah Snyder wrote 2 years ago: In what may be a first in the math blogosphere I will be liveblogging Ben’s talk. Until the ap … more →