I followed this on twitter today and i think i felt an actual physical sensation of blood boiling

thanks very much!!!

i passed my thesis defense last night! i am now dr. lance

btw, this is a fancy name for postdoc position

(this is totally crazy to me.....)

now that the ink has dried I can share that starting in fall 2026 i will be a ritt assistant professor at columbia university!!!

but i think for nakajima quiver varieties, people don't think this way ever really.

i also thought about this when i was learning about quiver representations generally, where i think is a useful perspective (e.g. gives a completely natural defn of morphism of quiver representations by natural transformation)

W

at university of michigan there's a place called "le dog = le soup" that sells hot dogs and soups

Reese Lance: Higher order double point formulas via SSM-Thom polynomials https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17651 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.17651 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.17651

tony soprano car wrap

Xingyu Cheng, Reese Lance, Nikhil Nagabandi, Andrey Smirnov: Quantum Difference Equations for Grassmannians https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21653 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.21653 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.21653

Matthew Crawford, Pavan Kartik, Reese Lance: Integrals of stable envelopes for cotangent bundles to Grassmannians https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21573 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.21573 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.21573

selfishly, another iteration of QFT/strings for mathematicians

did calves on thursday and still sore ://

i have a new paper out!! everyone go click and read it so I can receive money from the ads we've posted within the paper.

lol tim definitely knows more about branes than i do, i mostly think of them as funny lines in a brane diagram. though i do miss lev saying "material objects"

i also find myself having to remove that from my writing a lot lol

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

recently becoming more acquainted with jet bundles than i wished to be :/

finally have a concrete reason to care about understanding the picard group of a variety explicitly

go back to smartboards

whenever i finish grading a HW assignment i feel like a SW engineer shipping code

i am quite used to moment graphs in their applications for stable envelopes but i would like to one day learn what this business about "sheaves on moment graphs" is all about

it's 12 of one, a dozen of another

i think gazzillion ear may be the best rap song ever made

you really have to respect ulver for starting a guitar solo literally 30 seconds into their album

if you only ever deal with "nice combinatorial" spaces you also get tautological bundles for free! ie quiver/bow varieties