Grants
- The discovery project for “Developing an analytic theory of monoidal categories” was awarded. Click, Click, Click and Click. This is a collaboration with Kevin Coulembier, Pavel Etingof, Victor Ostrik.
- The future fellowship for “Categorical representation theory and applications” was awarded. Click, Click, Click and Click.
Outreach
- Quanta Magazine published a piece on the Bar-Natan–van der Veen knot invariant. Click. I was happy to contribute a few comments for the story.
- My YouTube channel is Click. It has its own home on my website.
- I support and I am part of LGBT+ mathematics outreach. Click, Click, Click.
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MathSciNet (ID 1067860)
My best paper
This is the height of my research: Click
My philosophy
"There are two ways to do mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else, but persistent." - based on a quotation from Raoul Bott.
Math links
- List of open access math journals (in 2023). Link
- Lean (proof assistant). Link
- Mathoverflow. Link
- The n-lab. Link
- The n-category cafe. Link
- The Secret Blogging Seminar. Link
- History of Mathematics archive. Link
- Mathgen: randomly generated mathematics research papers. Link
- Database of integer sequences. Link
- Atlas of Lie groups and representations. Link
- Theorem of the day. Link
- ProofWiki. Link
- Inkscape (for pictures). Link
- MathJax. (Click for some examples.) Link
- “Caution! Functor!”. Link
- “Connections on ArXiv”. Image. Original source. Link
- Periodic table of finite simple groups. Link
- Map projection transitions. Link
- The library of babel. Link
The cost of knowledge
Publishing one's own result is hard work. Still please note the following.
- A list of open access math journals. Link
- The cost of knowledge. Link
- Math journal prices. Link1, Link2
- Timothy Gowers original blog. Link
- Elsevier's Response. Link
MathJax
Note that I use MathJax on my homepage.
(If you have problems please make sure you have Javascript enabled and update your browser.)
For some fancy examples click here.

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