Tag Archives: Kevin Buzzard

The Arthurian Legend

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Persiflage

Some time back, Kevin Buzzard (friend of the blog!) gave a series of talks in which he criticized certain aspects of the mathematical culture when it came to accepting proof. In addition to obvious targets like the classification of finite … Continue reading →

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The horizontal Breuil-Mezard conjecture

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Persiflage

Postdoc hiring season will be upon us soon! I have two excellent graduate students who will be applying for academic jobs soon, Chengyang Bao and Andreea Iorga. I have mentioned Chengyang’s first project before here and an introduction to the … Continue reading →

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What the slopes are

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Persiflage

Let \(f\) be a classical modular eigenform of weight \(k\), for example, \(f = \Delta\). The Ramanujan conjecture states that the Hecke eigenvalues \(a_p\) satisfy the bound \(|a_p| \le 2 p^{(k-1)/2}.\) A slightly fancier but cleaner way of saying this … Continue reading →

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The eigencurve is (still) proper

Posted on October 23, 2020 by Persiflage

Although I don’t think about it so much anymore, the eigencurve of Coleman-Mazur was certainly one of my first loves. I can’t quite say I learnt about \(p\)-adic modular forms at my mother’s knee, but I did spend a formative … Continue reading →

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NSF Proposal, Graduate Fellowship Edition

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Persiflage

Note: I feel as a service to the number theory entertainment complex that I should blog more often in these times, even if it means being less coherent than usual. I might even try to get a few guest posts … Continue reading →

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Harris versus Buzzard

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Persiflage

Michael Harris has a new article at quanta. The piece is (uncharacteristically?) coy, referring to the laments of two logicians without divulging either their names or their precise objections, making oblique references to a cabal of 10 mathematicians meeting at … Continue reading →

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Tips for new postdocs

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Persiflage

In my role as junior hiring chair, I’ve been thinking a little bit about how a (R1) institution can best serve its postdocs. Many find the transition from graduate student life to being a postdoc somewhat of a rude shock. … Continue reading →

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A strange continuity

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Persiflage

Returning to matters OPAQUE, here is the following problem which may well now be approachable by known methods. Let me phrase the conjecture in the case when the prime p = 2 and the level N = 1. As we … Continue reading →

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More or less OPAQUE

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Persiflage

I recently talked with Lynnelle Ye (a soon to be graduating student of Mark Kisin) for a few hours about her thesis and related mathematics. In her thesis, she generalizes (in part) the work Liu-Wan-Xiao on the boundary (halo) of … Continue reading →

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Mazur 80

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Persiflage

Last week I was in Cambridge for Barry’s 80th birthday conference. If you are wondering why it took so long for Barry to get a birthday conference, that’s probably because you didn’t know that there was *also* a 60th birthday … Continue reading →

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