About Me

My name is Claudio Bastiani-Fonck. I am a physics and math major at UChicago.

Academic Interests

My mathematical interests mainly revolve around the more algebraic side of math, such as algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, etc. In terms of physics, I am currently in a biophysics lab on campus, working on the dynamics of the immune system in zebrafish. As a fun addition, I am currently taking Honors Organic Chemistry. I hope to eventually learn how chemists use character tables.

Hobbies

Besides my academic interests (Math and Physics) I currently have the following hobbies:

I am currently involved in running the Putnam practice (an activity of the math club). If you have any inquiries about that, or would like a link to the discord server, feel free to email.

The Website

I created this website in order to learn a bit about web development. This might function as a blog of sorts for random stuff I would like to talk about (as well as something to put on my CV). Look around if it that sounds interesting to you.

The site is quite simple, created using the Zola static site generator. Zola is a very nice tool which I must recommend. In particular it allows me to quickly add files to my website in markdown format and preview them on localhost. Moreover, it follows symlinks to my writings, so I don't need to update the website every time I update a pdf file. Initially, I had ambitious plans to host this on a raspberry pi, but I was lazy and eventually decided github.io was more practical.