It’s been a busy semester, and I haven’t done a great job of updating this blog lately. I have a couple of posts in preparation, but in the meantime:
  • I gave a talk on the nilpotence and periodicity theorems in stable homotopy theory at the pre-Talbot seminar (a.k.a. Juvitop) at MIT. All the talks this semester were videotaped; the video of mine is here. The results are really beautiful, showing that the “global” picture of stable homotopy theory exactly parallels the geometry of the moduli stack of formal groups.
  • I’ve been taking notes from a course of Joe Harris on the representation theory of Lie groups. Unfortunately, I’m unable to include the many pictures that were drawn in lectures, and the notes are somewhat incomplete.
  • I’m spending the summer at the REU program at Emory, and I’ll be thinking about problems in moduli of curves. It should be interesting to get a little experience with algebraic geometry. In particular, I’m going to try to focus this blog in that direction over the next couple of months.