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At some point, I hope I’ll have time to write a longer exposition of my thesis research for the general public. For now, though, I’d like to announce that a preprint of the paper containing my research, A Priori Estimates for Two-Dimensional Water Waves with Angled Crests, jointly written with my advisor, Sijue Wu, is …
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Now that my PhD is done—for the water wave aficionados out there, I will post a link to the preprint of my research sometime soon, I hope1—it’s time to start catching up on things. The writeup on my math, linguistics and writing freshman seminar is in the works. For now, here are assorted links. This …
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As promised, more substantive posts (including a reflection on my freshman seminar on math, linguistics, and writing) to come soon, once I finish my thesis.1 For now, assorted links accrued over procrastination during thesis-writing. Terry Tao has a really cool idea about using circuit design from electrical engineering to solve the million-dollar Navier-Stokes problem. A …
In case anyone is wondering: I haven’t disappeared. My freshman seminar last semester on math, linguistics, and writing went really well, and I’m looking forward to writing an extensive reflection on what I learned from the experience. But I do have a dissertation that needs to be finished, so that reflection is on the back …
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