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I am a Miller fellow at UC Berkeley. I am interested in free resolutions, representation theory, invariant theory and related combinatorics.
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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?

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Graded local rings versus local rings

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Finite groups with the same character table

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Complete intersections and flat families

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Is there a Morse theory proof of the Bruhat decomposition?
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Your favorite surprising connections in Mathematics
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What is the first interesting theorem in (insert subject here)?
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Character table does not determine group Vs Tannaka duality
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Ways to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra
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Real-world applications of mathematics, by arxiv subject area?
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Hironaka desingularisation theorem — new proofs in literature?
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How many minors I need to check to conclude all minors will vanish ?
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When Are Quotients Complete Intersections?
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How helpful is non-standard analysis?
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Why are the characters of the symmetric group integer-valued?
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Outer automorphisms of simple Lie Algebras
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Why is it a good idea to study a ring by studying its modules?
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What are examples of good toy models in mathematics?
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Ingenuity in mathematics
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Reference request: representation of type G2 Lie algebras.
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Why is an elliptic curve a group?
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Non-isomorphic groups with isomorphic nth powers (and similarly in other categories)
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Best exposition of the Proof of the Hilbert Syzygy Theorem by Eilenberg-Cartan
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Genus of Grassmannians and Flag Manifolds
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A question about saturation of quivers
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Software for computing multi-graded Hilbert series
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is amalgamation of groups associative
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the affine coordinate ring of orbit closures in the ordinary nilpotent cone
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A learning roadmap for algebraic geometry
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Langlands Dual Groups
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Is there a software package that does Schubert Calculus computations?
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What functor does Grassmannian represent?
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Books on reductive groups using scheme theory
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Figure out the roots from the Dynkin diagram
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