Here is the page where I get to brag and use the article ``I'' a lot without feeling too guilty about bragging about myself and my life (you clicked this, after all):
I am currently a researcher who did an AARMS postdoctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University followed by a postdoc at the University of Calgary. My work is currently outside of academia for life reasons, but I am still an active mathematician and researcher!
I am largely interested mathematically in general things involving what could be broadly considered ``categorical geoemtry'' (although to me category theory *is* geometry). In the more pure category theory side of things, I work in tangent category theory (a semantic and structural perspective on differential geometry first developed by Jiri Rosicky and later rediscovered by Cockett and Cruttwell in 2014), general things about higher categories (for instance: what is a tangent bicategory and why does this require tricategories and homotopy bicategories of monoidal infinity categories), categorical algebra (since working with Robin Cockett, I've become a large fan of rigs --- rings without *n*egatives --- and also the only way this Alberta boy will work on the rigs), categorical properties of geometric things (schemes, varieties, sheaves, orbifolds, and more), and other stuff I'm probably forgetting to mention. I'm also a huge fan of finding ways to recognize categorical structure in known settings and in algebraic geometry in particular. If you want to hear a rant about this, ask me about pseudolimits and Galois sheaves and also about how to use these together to aid in descent theory and in monodromy theory.
I am currently a researcher who did an AARMS postdoctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University followed by a postdoc at the University of Calgary. My work is currently outside of academia for life reasons, but I am still an active mathematician and researcher!
I am largely interested mathematically in general things involving what could be broadly considered ``categorical geoemtry'' (although to me category theory *is* geometry). In the more pure category theory side of things, I work in tangent category theory (a semantic and structural perspective on differential geometry first developed by Jiri Rosicky and later rediscovered by Cockett and Cruttwell in 2014), general things about higher categories (for instance: what is a tangent bicategory and why does this require tricategories and homotopy bicategories of monoidal infinity categories), categorical algebra (since working with Robin Cockett, I've become a large fan of rigs --- rings without *n*egatives --- and also the only way this Alberta boy will work on the rigs), categorical properties of geometric things (schemes, varieties, sheaves, orbifolds, and more), and other stuff I'm probably forgetting to mention. I'm also a huge fan of finding ways to recognize categorical structure in known settings and in algebraic geometry in particular. If you want to hear a rant about this, ask me about pseudolimits and Galois sheaves and also about how to use these together to aid in descent theory and in monodromy theory.
On the traditional algebraic geometric side of things, this means I like descent theory, equivariant geometry, homological algebra, the arithmetic geometry of the $p$-adic world, the categorical properties of the local Langlads programme, general things about schemes that do not need to use the word ``Noetherian,'' noncommutative algebra, and noncommutative algebraic geoemetry. I also occasionally do $p$-adic analysis, but this is rare and only done on an ``as needed'' basis.
As for the more human side of things: I have a wonderful wife, Heather, and two gorgeous pugs: one is named Petunia and the other is named Cauchy (he leaves residues on poles). We live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and we like to do cool things like go on walks with the pug, play table-top role playing games, read literature (Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote is amazing, and so is Neil Gaiman's Sandman --- the literature is amazing, but I hate that Neil Gaiman turned out to be a dirtbag), and play video games. Non-mathematically, I'm interested in comic books, literary theory (especially in the Derridian style), video games (especially RPGs), progressive rock music and music theory, and playing the bass (I have both a five string bass and a six string bass). I also really like hanging out with my wife and pugs.
As for the more human side of things: I have a wonderful wife, Heather, and two gorgeous pugs: one is named Petunia and the other is named Cauchy (he leaves residues on poles). We live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and we like to do cool things like go on walks with the pug, play table-top role playing games, read literature (Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote is amazing, and so is Neil Gaiman's Sandman --- the literature is amazing, but I hate that Neil Gaiman turned out to be a dirtbag), and play video games. Non-mathematically, I'm interested in comic books, literary theory (especially in the Derridian style), video games (especially RPGs), progressive rock music and music theory, and playing the bass (I have both a five string bass and a six string bass). I also really like hanging out with my wife and pugs.
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