Intro Post

Cue the obligatory introduction post!

My name is Brian Paljug, I'm a rising senior at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, and I study mathematics. I'm currently doing research for the CSUMS program ("Computational Science Training for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences") in the fields of symbolic dynamical systems and topological entropy. What do those things mean? I'm still learning myself, but I'll elaborate further in future blog entries. This journal was specifically created to serve as a record of my research progress for this summer in the CSUMS program (David's idea! now the whole internet knows!), but I kind of like the idea of using it as a general record for future research/academic progress, as well. We'll see; I'm ridiculously bad at following through on things I mean to do.

That's all for now; I'll hopefully provide a more substantial entry tomorrow about what I'm researching.