Apr 9, 2020 This biweekly online colloquium features geometers and physicists presenting current research on a wide range of topics in the interface of the two fields.

With the stock market crash and the big protests across the US, I’m finally feeling a trace of optimism that Trump’s stranglehold on the nation will weaken. Just a trace. I still need to self-medicate ...

Apr 7, 2025 Studying atomic nuclei forces us to quantize the concept of ellipsoid.

This is a bit of a shaggy dog story, but I think it’s fun. There’s also a moral about the nature of mathematical research. Once I was interested in the McGee graph, nicely animated here by Mamouka ...

Earlier this month the Mathematics Institute at Uppsala University hosted a conference called Categorification in Algebra and Topology, clearly a theme close to our collective heart. As yet there are ...

Mar 26, 2025 The McGee group is one of the two smallest groups with an outer automorphism that preserves conjugacy classes. My route to understanding this fact was a long and winding one.

It was fun showing people the great images created by Refurio Anachro, Greg Egan, Roice Nelson, Gerard Westendorp and many other folks. For more info on the images I talked about, read on….

Guest post by John Bourke. The next International Category Theory Conference CT2025 will take place at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) from Sunday, July 13 and will end on Saturday, July 19, ...

Feb 26, 2025 Potential functions from a functorial perspective.

Mar 14, 2025 01:02 If anyone wants to back up the arXiv, they should go here: arXiv Bulk Data Access - Amazon S3 The ...