At ICERM for a REUF continuation stay for the next week or so.

Usher catching a vibe at the International Congress of Mathematicians just before Peter Sarnak's talk on "Maestro Jean Pierre Serre" (I've met a few of the ushers. They all seem to be mathematicians themselves).

Srikanth Iyengar from the University of Utah (my PhD advisor) gave an ICM talk on the "Commutative Algebra of congruence ideals and applications to Number Theory"

ICM Panel: AI for Mathematics It has been strongly impressed upon all of us that we need to adapt to the times (i.e. get involved with the communities using AI for math research)

At the (WM)^2 - the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics - on the eve of the ICM. Currently listening to

Attended this conference at Mudd over the last two days. Great context and conversation but ultimately more questions than answers. Surprisingly (or perhaps not so surprisingly) almost everyone was an AI skeptic.

A peak into a card I got from the graduating math seniors from Harvey Mudd. That is indeed a cat learning about Ext, Tor, and Homs. Success! (names blacked out for privacy)

Still proud of the little paper that could. New milestone 10 years later. Do I celebrate today?

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ICMS in Edinburgh, Scotland shares the fifth floor of the beautiful Bayes Center with the Maxwell institute graduate school.

Framed to add to my office art. The University of Utah used a graduation pic of me and my PhD advisor as one of the main images for their 2017 commencement. These posters were apparently everywhere. How silly.

Presentation to Harvey Mudd's board of trustees about progress on our Data Science and Social Impact initiative.

Math conference in Brazil ... Where the lunch break is 3 hours and 10 mins. Love it!

Gave my first talk at a data-science conference today.

Had a meeting with our Dean and they had this framework on their whiteboard. It comes from "Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity" by Kim Malone Scott. It's burrowing into my brain ...

☺️ getting cited by some respected names in my field. 😞 Having them get my first initial wrong in the references.

Took part in Summer Research in Math at SLMath for the last two weeks. My group is using invariant theory to approach some conjectures in graph theory. This is the last year of SLMath's SRiM programme.

Indirect costs back to square one.

Bruns, the legend, gives a talk on fusion rings in Genova.

Our Spring Datathon got some attention from the College. www.hmc.edu/about/2025/0...

Continuing my tour of Math Institutes, I spent a few weeks at Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT) in Guanajuato Mexico! www.cimat.mx The architecture there is gorgeous and disorienting. I started a collaboration and will hopefully be learning about matroids.

My first conference where all the talks (except mine) were in Spanish. The Segundo Seminario Chichimeca de Algebra in Zacatecas, Mexico (sites.google.com/view/seminar...). I'm told it's modelled after Kumunu that rotates thru a few universities in the Midwest (sites.google.com/view/kumunu-...)

Gave a brief introduction to topology to some Math HL IB students at the United World College (Robert Bosch) in Freiburg, Germany.

In the library on the 3rd floor of Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. This Library sits between the Geometry, Groups, and Dynamics Group, directed by Anna Wienhard and the Nonlinear Algebra Group, directed by Bernd Sturmfels.

On Sat held our first (hopefully) annual Datathon under our Data Science for Social Impact initiative. Two amazing speakers then a data visualization competition on a dataset derived from the World Bank Millennium Development Goals Databank. We had students from Harvey Mudd, CMC, Pitzer and Pomona!!

Old book in circulation at the Combinatorics Synergies East workshop

Visiting MPI Leipzig for a few weeks. if you're close by, come say "hi"!

Harvey Mudd and my colleagues there came up so many times during this MAA Golden sectional meeting (collaborators, recommenders, wonderful times in people's professional lives). I didn't appreciate how influential my little department is, especially in CA.

Next talk "What the Pfaff" - Jenny Quinn, joint work with Naiomi Cameron.