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| ## Hello from AWS and Birthday! | ||
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| ## We are in Tucson | ||
| - It's awesome here! The weather is great, the people are nice, and it's my Birthday! | ||
| - I actually got here last Friday, with someone from my lab. We flew together, which was fantastic, but they ended up going | ||
| home today, and I will head back tomorrow. I opted to stay the extra night because tonight is the banquet, and it's my birthday! | ||
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| ## It's been a blast | ||
| - Okay, so crazy unexpected thing happened and I got into a project group this time (which is quite competitive!) for *the* | ||
| elliptic curves *guy*. As in, he wrote the book I studied from for my quals. And, the project had a computational element. | ||
| And..best of all, it led to some really awesome results that we will definitely be writing up! Not only that, but we | ||
| ended up getting a lot of interest, a lot of questions after our presentation, and even [Mazur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mazur) told us that our presentation | ||
| "was beautiful". If that is not a great birthday, I don't know what is! Also, Drew Sutherland, who helped us parallelize some of our | ||
| code in Magma (we started in a mix of Sage and Magma, but ended up doing the core of our computation used for the presentation on | ||
| Magma) was also really intrigued! | ||
| - Mazur also suggested some other things we could look into as well, and we had a line of people afterwards with questions. So | ||
| it's exciting work! Also, the process was quite enjoyable; Silverman didn't end up making it but really stuck with us and met with | ||
| us online and was quite responsive and helpful! We even got a cool story that we weaved into our presentation about [Tate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tate_(mathematician)) | ||
| and [Coates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Coates) that he sent to us in passing via an email. | ||
| - Our group worked every night until midnight, and even had a walk to the 24-hour CVS around the corner to get ice cream after | ||
| midnight. It was really a memorable time. Our mentors were wonderful, and it was just a fun time! | ||
| - I'll definitely have to post some of the group photos our team took. It was such an epic time. | ||
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| ## I was thinking about what someone said | ||
| - I've been thinking about how much interest I've gotten being in Mathematics. In Computer Science, there wasn't (imo) as much interest, | ||
| but there seems to be something about the things I am interested in and my skillset that is appealing to the Maths people, and I | ||
| remember my Maths advisor saying that the other day, when I was applying for something and trying to decide if I should pick Maths | ||
| or Computer Science for reviewers. Her response was "Maths, because I think they would find it interesting". That's been in the | ||
| back of my mind for a bit, because I've generally been hired by Mathematicians, they saw potential in me early on (even before | ||
| grad school), and seem to work with them easily, and am having a lot of fun doing that. I've also most recently also been working | ||
| with some physicists, but the core of people I work with on projects are Mathematicians, which is interesting. I've honestly never | ||
| felt more at home, and productive. | ||
| - I think that's an interesting point to make, which a labmate and I were talking about the other day; the previous community they | ||
| were showing their work to was kind of like "okay, meh", but they suddenly interacted with another, and they were fascinated by | ||
| their work. That can be difficult to find, especially as a grad student, but it really is the case that one can find a community | ||
| that is adjacent to (or even, not so much adjacent to) one's direct field, and find that they derive a lot of value from what you | ||
| can bring to the table. Somewhere you can have a conversation, collaborate, and it's just full of energy and there are just so | ||
| many sparks of ideas to try things out. For me right now, that is Maths. There are some really fascinating intersections and | ||
| blending of various topics and turning things on their head that is just super cool. | ||
| - It reminded me of the first time I attended NeurIPS and got to chat briefly with Professor Bouman from Caltech, who was | ||
| quite in the spotlight because of the black hole image. I remember she said to me that whatever I choose, to take the time to | ||
| really sit with that community, to be a part of it. I never forgot that, and even though I do bounce around, the Maths community | ||
| is, I think, the place where I feel at home. Even if I'm always the only weirdo who happens to be actually in Computer Science lol. | ||
| At this point, I am, but I might as well not be lol. | ||
| - Anyways, I'm learning a lot, but I feel really valued working with them, and I am *busy*. I keep running into people | ||
| who are working on things, wanting to know if a collaboration might be possible. All in all, I'm super | ||
| thankful also, and hope that I can give back to this wonderful community that has brought me so much joy in grad school. | ||
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| ## Here are some photos | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws1.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - A Commutative Algebra conference coming up. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws2.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - The group presentations were all amazing. It was really great that everyone supported each other, too. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws3.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - Yes, there were memes. Sven (also a member of our group!) had an incredible number of really great ones that made us laugh. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws4.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - This year's topic. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws5.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - From my mom. I saw it while we were still working on our presentation in the wee morning. Just after midnight, my group | ||
| realized it was also my birthday and we stopped to say Happy Birthday! | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws6.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - My mom's words to me. Really awesome. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws7.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - From my labmate. I'm opening it this evening! | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws8.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - The people at the tea shop were so used to seeing me they started recommending teas I might like and just gave me some | ||
| to try. I came for one cup and left with three! | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws9.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - Next year's topic. Interestingly, I'm currently part of a Group Representation Theory study group that runs weekly online. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws10.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - Andy receives a thank you book signed by us on 25 years of AWS. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws11.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - Mazur gave an awesome set of lectures! | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws12.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - Silverman giving lectures. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws13.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - Drew wanting us to come to MIT this year. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws14.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - More MIT things. I'm interning this summer so probably won't be able to make it. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws15.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - Joel Silverbear, as he was called lol | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws16.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - Rachel had some 3D printed glasses that read "mod p" that she brought out during lectures. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws17.png" width="200"> | ||
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| - My new friend who got to try on Silverman's name tag on the first day (they then gave it to the bear). | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws18.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - Bear falling asleep in lectures on the first day! | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws19.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - View from our window in the mornings. | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws20.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - Reunited and it feels so good! | ||
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| <img src="/images1/AWS24pics/aws21.png" width="300"> | ||
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| - So beautiful! They remind me of the wild west, or the painting of Thomas Cole's "The Oxbow" and the Hudson River School paintings | ||
| we looked at in Undergrad Art History class. I think in my heart, the allure of the American West is this place of being able to run free, try new | ||
| things, and to reimagine. It's probably why I ran away from the East Coast early on, and imo the West Coast is still the best coast lol. | ||
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| ## So how does it feel to be one year older? | ||
| - I guess, thrilling. I'm so happy to have been here to share it with some of my favourite people, in a place with fresh | ||
| guacamole, the largest cacti and prickly pear tea. I'm excited to see what's next and for future collaborations. | ||
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| ## And that's it. | ||
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