Solitons: only half a lecture this week due to the storm, solved the Schrodinger equation, could have been back in 2nd year modern physics class, really wish we could get on to something new
Rep theory: moved on to focus on group reps, spent way too long on the simple stuff and rushed the more complicated bits
Hopf algebras: finally defined a Hopf algebra, but that was about it before the lecutrers computer died. I've agreed to give a talk next week (this week now, gonna have to rush planning it) about string diagrams, mostly out of frustration at how awful monoidal categories are without them
Tried to present the calcuation I did, got talked over, then supervisors spent ages debating a point that was at best tangential to what I was trying to do
Just the one first year maths tutorial this week, basic matrices and combinatorics. The matrices are fine, although I had to point out that superscript T is the transpose, not an exponent, several times. Combinatorics is hard to explain, my method for the types of counting problems they have to do has always been to stare at it until I've convinced myself I know the answer, this makes it pretty hard to explain
Integrable Systems talk on spin chains, a pretty interesting generalisation of things like the Ising model that I've spend far too much time thinking about, but now there's some interesting representation theory happening, still don't know what a Yangian is
Officially started this week (delayed due to the storm). Our topic is quantum groups, which is nice because I was planning to learn about them any way. Hopefully I can get a little more guidance on what I should focus on though
