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I'm an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University. My interests are geometric representation theory, knot homology and categorification.
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How does one handle two-body job searches?

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When should you, and should you not, share your mathematical ideas?
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How important are publications for undergrads?
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Undergraduate math research
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Cite articles or book where I first found the result?
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Why would one expect a derived equivalence of categories to hold?
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How hard is it to get tenure in mathematics?
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Where are mathematics jobs advertised if not on mathjobs (e.g. in Europe and elsewhere)?
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Why is the exterior algebra so ubiquitous?
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Proper way to deal with papers you’ve already refereed.
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How to escape the inclination to be a universalist or: How to learn to stop worrying and do some research.
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Can we categorify the equation (1 - t)(1 + t + t^2 + …) = 1?
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Is a functor which has a left adjoint which is also its right adjoint an equivalence ?
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When should a supervisor be a co-author?
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What relationship, if any, is there between the diameter of the Cayley graph and the average distance between group elements?
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Interpretation of elements of H^1 in sheaf cohomology.
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Is a free alternative to MathSciNet possible?
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Geometric interpretation of $BN$-pairs
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Deformations of semisimple Lie algebras
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Compact connected iff semi-simple for Lie Groups?
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Extension of induced reps over Z: is it a sum of induced reps?
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For a representation V of a finite group G, when is Hom(W, W⊗V) trivial for all irreps W?
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Things to keep in mind while looking for a Postdoc overseas
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