Jan Grabowski

@burgonsociety.bsky.social Lancaster PhD (left), London PhD (new regulations, right).

It has been great to catch up with Wookyung and discuss our ongoing collaboration in person, as his position as JSPS Invitational Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo means that our conversations are mainly online.

Well done, Wookyung!

Wookyung Kim, my former PhD student, and I, in our doctoral gowns.

A very special day today, celebrating the achievements of my former student Wookyung Kim on the occasion of his PhD graduation at @lancasteruni.bsky.social. Congratulations to him and all the graduates from the Faculty of Science and Technology and especially the School of Mathematical Sciences.

David Evans speaking at the conference.

An open door with the conference poster on, with a view into a lecture theatre.

All set and ready to go for the conference I'm co-organising this week.

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Will this be in a magazine issue, or online only? If the former, do you know which? Thank you!

Factors Affecting Public Engagement by UK Researchers 2025 Introduction About the study The Royal Society has commissioned Technopolis to conduct a study on the factors affecting public engagement by UK researchers in 2025. The primary objective is to understand… What public engagement means and entails in 2025 The value and significance of public engagement Enablers and barriers, and opportunities and risks of public engagement Effective implementation and support strategies How these elements have changed over time

🚨Calling all UK-based researchers (of any discipline) and public engagement professionals!

Help us better understand the factors affecting public engagement by taking part in The Royal Society's survey👇

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Image extracted from talk slides, showing relationships between Grothendieck groups of cluster-tilting subcategories of a cluster category and those of their representation theory.

Very enjoyable day in Manchester today, giving the Algebra seminar at the Department of Mathematics at @uniofmanchester.bsky.social, talking about my work with Matthew Pressland (Caen) and catching up with a variety of colleagues. Plus a bit of trying to implement the old classic (time+coffee=maths)

Seven tips to turn teaching practices into scholarship outputs What are universities looking for when they ask for examples of scholarship outputs? Find out what could provide evidence of this work and how it can enhance your academic career

What are universities looking for when they ask for examples of scholarship output? Find out what how to provide evidence of this work and how it can enhance your academic career, by Steve Briggs and @juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/seven... #edusky #academicsky

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel Prize “for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory.”

In the third column, it says "The Judge, Vice-Chancellor ..." - whose VC was the High Court judge assigned to this case?! (Not Keele's, one assumes!)

An old monochrome picture postcard showing an aerial view of college buildings set in an urban landscape

Today's #HigherEducationPostcard shows the then Queen Mary College, now formally Queen Mary and Westfield, known more generally as Queen Mary, University of London

You'll find it in London, on the Mile End Road

Think of a number. My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsen…

Number theorists: please get in touch. xenaproject.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/t...

Ghana's Dr Angela Tabiri: The Maths Queen with a quantum mission to mentor girls Dr Angela Tabiri wants more African girls and women from less privileged backgrounds to study maths.

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BBC News - Ghana's Dr Angela Tabiri: The Maths Queen with a quantum mission to mentor girls - BBC News
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Today I was asked in an interview about folks who use the weirdness of ✨quantum✨ to hawk pseudoscience junk. I think that kind of grift proliferates because of a big misunderstanding a lot of folks have about quantum mechanics, which is not really their fault!
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I can try... The story arc is neat and satisfying (but I don't want to give anything away so won't say more than that) but really it's the whole ensemble - characters, backdrop, plot, language. Plus a few bits of social commentary for good measure.

Just finished The Moonlight Market by @joannechocolat.bsky.social - highly recommend! A sideways step into a world that could be (is??) ours and the writing has beautiful cadences, evocative of stories from our childhood but for us now. Slightly regretting reading it so quickly but couldn't help it.

A Fascination with Fractured Friezes — Numberphile Featuring Professor Eleonore Faber discussing frieze patterns and polygons - and what happens when you cut them... Paper - Friezes satisfying higher SLk-determinants - https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10...

Ooh, a(nother) Numberphile video on friezes! Great to see Eleonore talking about this - it's closely related to things I study too.

Thanks, @bradyharan.bsky.social !

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People seem to like libraries a lot here (with which I cannot disagree), so as a first post, here's (part of) me in my "local". I'm very fortunate to have a university library, and one of this quality, easily accessible to me. Yes, I'm reading on a device not paper; I am hopeful not to be judged...