i found this blog greatly helpful to any1 who has deep interest in string theory expositions so accessible for a beginner reader/student, prof or nonprof tracingcurves.wordpress.com/category/maths…

#Strings2025 looks great. The public talks by Shenker and Tong is a nice touch (8th and 9th Jan). Looking forward to it all on the other side of Christmas holidays. 6-10 Jan 2025 [nyuad.shorthandstories.com/strings-confer…]

Gabriel’s horn in n-dimensions [tracingcurves.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/gab…] #Maths #geometry

The Euler characteristic of the moduli space of curves [tracingcurves.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/the…]

Notes on string theory #8: Hamiltonian for free open string in light-cone [tracingcurves.wordpress.com/2024/11/12/not…] #Physics #StringTheory #strings

Notes on string theory #9: equations of motion, wave equation, and general solution [tracingcurves.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/not…] #Physics #strings

Rankin-Selberg method [tracingcurves.wordpress.com/2024/07/22/mod…]

My colleagues in Durham used optical tweezers to realise long-lived entanglement between pairs of molecules The progress in this field is astonishing phys.org/news/2025-01-m…

Tropical amplitudes, moduli space, and positive geometries [tracingcurves.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/tro…]

Number theory and physics workshop this week (20-23 Jan). Some nice talks so far [indico.mitp.uni-mainz.de/event/426/time…]

The growing inaccessibility of science.

I’ve started a second blog (Dialogues at still points): dialoguesatstillpoints.wordpress.com Post about it also on my physics blog: tracingcurves.wordpress.com/2024/12/29/ive…

I wrote a quick post about this a couple months ago [tracingcurves.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/the…] based on Harder's paper and also on the work by Harer and Zagier. There is still something here that I want to return to in the future.

This reminds me of the time spent thinking about large classes of non-analytic smooth functions and our etas. Super interesting and it is one several related research pathways for us for the future. Come to think of it, I might write a blog about this.

The road diverged in the woods. Do you (a) read about the work of one of the (no hype) great scientists and great public intellectuals of the 20th century (b) watch a youtube channel telling you that everything is bullshit? The choice is yours arxiv.org/abs/2502.10979

One of the biggest systemic failures of the UK economy is that the best maths and science graduates work in finance rather than the STEM professions that actually build a productive economy.

Modular shadows in various guises tracingcurves.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/mod…

First entry on tropical geometry for scattering amplitudes tracingcurves.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/geo…

Tropical numbers, arithmetic, and polynomials tracingcurves.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/tro…

Terrific thread on developments and directions re. tropical amplitudes.