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Proboscidea-Rubber is the 15th volume of an arbitrary paper encyclopedia.

Ribes californicum
Illustration of some contractible and non-contractible spaces. Spaces A, B, and C are contractible; spaces D, E, and F are not.
Purple cauliflower soaked in baking soda (left) and vinegar (right). Anthocyanin acts as an pH indicator.
Castle at Mosonmagyaróvár
Constructing the nerve of an open good cover containing 3 sets in the plane.
The cover on the left is not a good cover, since while all open sets in the cover are contractible, their intersection is disconnected. The cover on the right is a good cover, since the intersection of the two sets is contractible.

I try keep an organized public record of past and planned work here.

Past Work:

  • Adding information on enumeration to the article on Abstract Simplicial Complexes and fixing ambiguities which have caused confusion in my research.
  • Created page on mathematical biologist Trachette Jackson. My next steps should be to track down a public domain image.
  • Brought the list of Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award winners up to date through 2014. I'm not quite sure what is going on with the 2015 awards, since the number and titles of the awards seem to have changed but the change does not seem to have been announced anywhere .
  • Moving JMM 2016 from present to past, adding a reference section to that page.


  • Created the article Cech complex. It could use some expansion.

Future work (I will not object if anyone else chooses to take on these projects for me!):

PDEs final project:


I'm keeping a list of wiki pages relating to partial differential equations which are kind of sad, and will be cleaning them up and adding more information to a subset of them as a final project. Here is the list as it stands: