Currently I'm doing a lot of reading in topics which I have plenty of interest in, making notes (including exercises and proofs) wherever possible. I still do my daily survey of arXiv to have some notion of what is of interest to others. I'm doing a lot of listening to a lot technology podcasts to understand where industries are going. Note that I've been doing these all the while, irrespective of how busy I am with my teaching duties (the priority, of course, being paid for this). With my teaching contract is coming to an end, I will be doing more of these. I still owe the university, filing up my teaching portfolion. Sometime last week, I thought of finishing my duties by sending the exam scripts to the exam unit of the university but unfortunately I found out that there are more things to do. Thus, I figure that I can only end my duties later this week.
From listening to technology podcasts, I'm learning about new tools in the hope of it will help me in research. One that I saw is Google's Notebook LM. I found out that it could summarize Riemann's 1851 thesis, which is in German, and I do find that is of value. Another feature that I saw was the mind map tool that could be very useful (see picture)
I do hope to toy with it more when I find the time is suitable. I have tried other tools that help summarize papers but I do not want it to replace totally my own reading of the paper, which is needed for proper understanding (the devil is in the details). Perhaps, I can use such summaries to see whether I should proceed reading a particular paper.
In anticipation of forthcoming duties (formal or not), I hope to reread my books on quantum field theory and quantum many body theory. Let's see what happens.
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