#phd posting

[howsoonitwasover]

13.04.26. 💐🌷 spring has fully arrived! and with it my first productive writing day in what feels like forever. i enjoyed some homemade carrot cake and a london fog while writing and i think that helped motivate me :)

[spectracled-eider]

PhD Post Week 30

I definitely didn't almost forget to do it this week. This week has a bit different because we had this event on in the algebraic topology group. So lots of PGR and staff gave some short talks about things they're interested in. I was also completely exhausted after this two day event so Thursday and Friday weren't so productive (in fact I took Friday off).

Some talks were more interesting to me than others. For example, there was a whole lot of stuff about K-theory and that isn't really my thing. Some highlights: there was a talk about the Kervaire invariant problem and how it might be linked to the fact there are only 7 Rosenfeld projective planes (in particular the speaker hopes that there might be some overruling phenomen that gives rise to both things). The was also a talk about all these different categories of metric spaces and all the adjubctions you can get between them which was pretty cool. Also my supervisor spoke a bit about the sort of stuff I'm hoping to work on after this summer project is done and it was very helpful for solidifying my interest in it.

Summer Project:

I'm definitely a lot more comfortable with this full algebraic model we're working with and I think I've identified the thing I need to in this category. Now I need to produce an injective resolution of it and that might cause some minor grief but not too much.

My supervisor also wants me to study the semifree case in more detail because there are other things about it he's interested in. He's given me these notes he wrote up about how to do what he wants me to do so that's my main task for this week. My second goal is, as mentioned above, is to find this injective resolution.

Also I worked a bit on my presentation and wrote up the Tumblr post I wanted to write! So if you haven't read that already, I strongly recommend it

[thatpoisonouswave]

i am a serious academic.

[warbliers]

Celebration of having a PhD advisor canceled I'm now deathly afraid of disappointing her

[javasquats]

When will my husband (response to the email I sent) return from the war (the professor I emailed)

[ecologie-txt]

6.15.24 | now that the academic year is done, I have lots of reading backlog to catch up on! I’m building an annotated bibliography for papers referenced a lot in my field; hopefully will make writing my first manuscript later this summer easier…

[howsoonitwasover]

07.05.26. i have been enjoying a relaxing admin week after i submitted my annual progress review last friday! lots of coffee, pastries, and a new cinnamon, honey + chamomile tea i have discovered that i <3. i also finished a collection of victor hugo’s verse yesterday at a coffee shop and it has made me excited to read more french poets

[howsoonitwasover]

20.04.26. productive monday back at the laptop! i finished off a key section of my lit review, done some editing, and precariously used a mug of earl grey as a page-holder☕️ also some pics from my morning walk and my visit to st paul’s at the weekend. funny how living in london means you rarely actually visit the cool things here haha!