It is a good day and tomorrow I will be a cube!

problem set? i'm sorry but we do 21st century mathematics in this classroom. here's your problem category

There’s a past version of myself that would argue to the death that “Room on Fire” was a better album than “Is This It?” and I would now argue to the death with my past self that the opposite is true

UW HOMOTOPY MUG!!!!

math so hard guys wtf

The child in me will never stop loving Van Halen

William Balderrama, Piotr Pstr\k{a}gowski Unstable synthetic deformations II: Infinitesimal extensions https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08812

William Balderrama, Piotr Pstr\k{a}gowski Unstable synthetic deformations I: Malcev theories https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08802

I’m so broken by chromatic homotopy theory… I was just in a seminar about smooth structures on spheres (very real tangible stuff) and there was a brief connection with periodic elements in stable homotopy (very fake made up stuff) and the only questions I had were about vn-periodicity

I have learned how to use tikz. I am unstoppable.

Christian Carrick, Bertrand Guillou, Sarah Petersen The real Brown-Peterson homology of $\Omega^\rho S^{\rho + 1}$ https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18019

Happy Holidays!! Last Christmas in Seattle. Maddy and I spent yesterday getting Japanese curry, reading, going out to see It’s a Wonderful Life (3rd year in a row!) and drinking homemade eggnog (not pictured bc drank it very fast)

Jesse Keyes, Jordan Sawdy Picard Groups in Equivariant Algebra and Stable Homotopy Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16002

Pictures from the Christmas party for the coffee shop I work at! My 2nd and 3rd year of grad school I worked regularly, and the last 2 years I have filled in here and there. Not a good idea to work a second job while getting a PhD, but it was certainly the most fun I’ve had in Seattle.

I love living next to a bridge

Fabio Tanania Real isotropic motivic spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22560

Both of them!

I am begrudgingly thinking about equivariant classifying spaces

Just unbelievable

I think I’m just not capable of enjoying Thomas Pynchon no matter how hard I try

I have been in probably 5 hotel rooms this fall and I have caught only the second half of My Cousin Vinny at least 3 of those times. I still don’t know how that movie starts but geez that last scene with Marisa Tomei is so cool

Prasit Bhattacharya, Alex Waugh, Mingcong Zeng, Foling Zou Equivariant Steenrod Operations https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09816

Stuck in Detroit airport someone share their Latex quirks so that I can busy myself on my laptop with nonsense

Peter May in the UW math department rn. Wtf

Job talk travel this fall has taken like 5 years off of my life span

Said it before and I’ll say it again. I do not believe in hibernation. That’s gotta be propaganda

Keita Allen, Lucas Piessevaux Synthetic equivariant spectra for finite abelian groups and motivic homotopy theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20197

Christian Carrick Slice spectral sequences through synthetic spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19501

Once again Geese album is changing my life. This is my In Rainbows

NSF SUBMITTED I CAN BREATHE!!!!!

Sebastian Gant, Ben Williams Motivic Homotopy Groups of Spheres and Free Summands of Stably Free Modules https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10033

Order my book today! a.co/d/7XOhaa6

Job applications and research statements have sucked the joy out of mathematics

mariners won

Having a normal one.

I can do anything if I got my buddy

I am once again thinking about the dual Steenrod algebra

Geese album is changing my life i fear

Wonderful trip to Colorado!! Beautiful mountains and fun math.

Prerna Dhankhar, Rebecca Field, Arjun Nigam, J. D. Quigley, Albert Jinghui Yang Very effective algebraic and hermitian K-theory of the cyclic group of order two https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25006

I continually describe myself as “not a number theorist” and yet i continually find myself saying the words “valuation”, “modular form”, “formal group law”

Sometimes math gets to look like this.

Insane amount of good music recently

🥉🥉🥉!!!

Today’s task: look at this picture.

H{\aa}kon Kolderup, Oliver R\"ondigs, Paul Arne {\O}stv{\ae}r Hermitian $K$-theory and Milnor-Witt motivic cohomology over $\mathbb Z$ https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16404

Ken Ono homotopy theory crossover ?!

Normalizing \infty cats

Math is so cool.

Finally saw the infamous plaque