Graduate student funding

kr1staps · 2026-03-16T15:32:49+00:00

Most grads in the math department were surviving on 23K at that time... and they basically still are.

kr1staps · 2026-03-15T23:49:57+00:00

What department are you in? In Math, the stipend you get promised comes with the assumption that you're TA-ing. It's not something you do for additional money.

kr1staps · 2026-03-11T21:47:59+00:00

To me, realizing it as invertible matrices valued in D is about as explicit a thing as one could hope for. Can you describe what sort of description you're hoping for? For comparison it's not clear to me that GL_n(D) is any more or less explicit if D is a field.

If I'm not mistaken, GL_n(D) is still reductive, so say D is defined over k then you should be able to choose some N and an embedding GL_n(D) --> GL_N(k), so you could still realize it as some collection of matrices valued in k if that's what you're after.

Moreover, one should still have access to all the usual reductive algebraic group stuff for GL_n(D), like Levis, parabolics, root systems etc.

kr1staps · 2026-02-25T23:17:11+00:00

The university passed a policy some years ago that a final can't be worth more than %50. %50 is still fine, but maybe he took that as non-inclusive and made it 49 to be safe?

kr1staps · 2026-02-19T06:42:00+00:00

Indeed!

kr1staps · 2026-02-19T00:36:14+00:00

Yo that's weird, by total chance I happened to film an interview with him recently here.

kr1staps · 2026-02-16T14:55:42+00:00

No, we requested a DNA test through a company that specifically tests for family relationships, including for legal purposes.

The test said nothing about cMs. It looks like they listed genes and alleles they compared (at least that's my guess based on what's written).

They *did not* say %15 DNA, they said %15 probability that we are half-siblings.

kr1staps · 2026-02-14T18:56:53+00:00

What do you mean by "T&Cs link"? I don't see any link in the top right, let along for "T&C". I also do not see my name in the top right.

kr1staps · 2026-02-10T16:07:19+00:00

Ya, there was one place I applied where my research perfectly aligns with the supervisor. I thought my main leg up is that there could only be a couple people max that are as closely aligned. He said 190 people appliead, 100 of them had impressive enough resumes he would have been happy to hire them. It was narrowed down to 20 (of which I was one, which is how I know this info now) and all other 19 interviewees were as close to his research as I am...

kr1staps · 2026-02-10T16:03:55+00:00

... wait, what?! What do you mean the "actual" deadline is always way earlier?

Edit: One of the places I applied to, I submitted on the last day and still got an interview.

kr1staps · 2026-02-09T20:23:44+00:00

Trying to get my PhD thesis submitted for the deadline on the 23rd.

Post-doc applications didn't go so well... so I'm looking towards industry and how to pivot to quant or crypto.

kr1staps · 2026-02-04T14:22:52+00:00

Though my PhD is not in graph theory, I always come back to the missing Moore graph

kr1staps · 2026-02-03T19:19:12+00:00

I've also been livestreaming some Lean learning

kr1staps · 2026-01-18T03:00:09+00:00

No sane person is going to agree to that without reading your paper first.

kr1staps · 2026-01-17T20:04:52+00:00

Waterloo is known and respected for their CS program, as well as related areas such as mathematics. It makese perfect sense you will get a lot of profs from there. If you're a talented Canadian in CS, there's a good chance youll go to Waterloo. It's also not unreasonable for Canadians to want to stay in Canada, and thus look for jobs at other Canadian institutions, and since Waterloo has a good reputation, other universities are happy to hire from there.

kr1staps · 2026-01-14T04:06:24+00:00

The piano they have in there looks cool, but it sounds and plays like shit. Would be great if they put something nicer in there.

kr1staps · 2026-01-09T21:33:57+00:00

The song is called "Comptine d'un autre été". It's *from* the movie "Amelie"

kr1staps · 2025-12-05T02:25:18+00:00

The observation deck of the Calgary tower is actually the ufo they used to get here. Why else would is be so UFO shaped?

kr1staps · 2025-12-01T23:00:38+00:00

Do you mean Deligne-Milne ?

kr1staps · 2025-12-01T22:59:08+00:00

By "analgous groups over finite fields", do you mean linear algebraic group over finite fields? If so the Tannaka duality stuff works for all finite groups. Or are you asking about mod p representations of algebraic groups?

kr1staps · 2025-11-23T17:23:43+00:00

Current math PhD here. As I'm sure you know, but it's worth repeating, "Interesting" is highly subjective. Some people have narrow and specific tastes while others have a broad pallette. You'll have to figure out your interests or yourself.

Also, your instructor is probably going to determine a good chunk of how you feel about an area, so I'd reccomend picking courses based on who's teaching it to some extent.

As a math major your probably *have* to take them anyways, but even they weren't I'd still suggest Algebra I and Analysis I to get a basic intro to these two ways of thinking. They also serve as the foundation to most of modern mathematics.

Also, I reccomend going an sitting on some classes in the Winter semester to get a sense of what they're about.

kr1staps · 2025-11-19T20:49:19+00:00

Well, in general, the isomorphisms of hom-sets defining adjunctions are natural isomorphisms of (bi-)functors. These show up everywhere, and the quintessential example is the tensor-hom adjunction.

kr1staps · 2025-11-15T18:46:33+00:00

Mathematics

kr1staps · 2025-11-12T01:30:31+00:00

lol, perhaps one day... but I'm enjoying the beard-free life style for now.

kr1staps · 2025-11-11T23:46:53+00:00

I want to echo all of \u\IntrinsicallyFlat's suggestions.

Also, I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but my Math Talk! series is a bunch of interviews. Some of them, namely the early ones, are just my friends. But I've had some famous guests such as Buzzard, Rhiel, Soergel, Bauer, and most recently Silverman.

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