My story of Bertrand Russell, given at The Laborastory, a monthly science storytelling event in Melbourne.
Throughput the Wringer
For those who care about the long term prospects of civilization, the only way out is a radically different system.
Strand algebras and contact categories
We demonstrate an isomorphism between the homology of the strand algebra of bordered Floer homology, and the category algebra of the contact category introduced by Honda. This isomorphism provides a direct correspondence between various notions of Floer homology and arc diagrams, on the one hand, and contact geometry and topology on the other. In particular, arc diagrams correspond to quadrangulated surfaces, idempotents correspond to certain basic dividing sets, strand diagrams correspond to contact structures, and multiplication of strand diagrams corresponds to stacking of contact structures. The contact structures considered are cubulated, and the cubes are shown to behave equivalently to local fragments of strand diagrams.
Of all the things
Of all the things, what does Australian electoral politics concerns itself with?
Elections — or, how not to gnaw your arm off
Electoral politics in Australia. The mere thought of it makes me want to gnaw my arm off.
The Impact of Impact
On some aspects of the research funding system in the UK and Australia.
Talk on hyperbolic volume and Mahler measure, April 2016
On 8 April, 2016 I gave a talk at the University of Melbourne in the Knot Invariants seminar. The talk was entitled “Hyperbolic volume and the Mahler measure of the A-polynomial”
Talk on trinities, hypergraphs, contact structures, March 2016
On 14 March, 2016 I gave a talk at Monash University in the Discrete Mathematics seminar. The talk was entitled “Trinities, hypergraphs, and contact structures”. Slides from the talk are available.
Love, the Answer to the Problem of Human Existence
A paean to, and exposition of, love, extracted as an extended set of quotations from Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving.
More excrement
Poem about the material economy.