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Advice on applying for fellowships.

Advice on PhD applications.

Research and teaching statements from my 2019-2020 academic job search.

Blog posts I wrote on clustering and learning high-dimensional mixture models using the SoS method (originally appeared on Windows on Theory. pdf

Notes on tensor decomposition using the SoS method (originally notes for a guest lecture at Stanford). pdf

A short general-audience video about my research. youtube

Slides from a high-level introduction to SoS for cryptographers, from this workshop. slides (pptx)

Resources from a workshop at the Santa Fe institute in 2018, hosted by the Cris Moore

Where to eat in Berkeley or Ithaca