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I'm an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, and an Associate Faculty member at the Perimeter Institute. My interests are geometric representation theory, knot homology and categorification.

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What's the "best" proof of quadratic reciprocity?
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How does an academic mathematician educate him/herself about job opportunities outside academia?
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Are there examples of (successful) NSF mathematics proposals available anywhere online?
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What is the insight of Quillen's proof that all projective modules over a polynomial ring are free?
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Is there a slick proof of the classification of finitely generated abelian groups?
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Galois groups vs. fundamental groups
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Is there a high-concept explanation for why characteristic 2 is special?
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What is Koszul duality?
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D-modules, deRham spaces and microlocalization
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Which are the best mathematics journals, and what are the differences between them?
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