I am Fran Burstall, a mathematician, kite-flyer and sometime emacs hacker.

Mathematician

I am a sort of differential geometer working at the University of Bath.

Check out my papers.

Kite-flyer

I used to fly at number 2 for Team Flame: many times UK champions and once 5th in the world.

I also flew number 2 for the pair Phoenix: many times UK champions and 3rd in Europe a couple of times.

Finally, I was UK Individual Champion for a couple of years just before covid.

My current kite project is to learn how to fly revs (4-line kites).

Emacs hacker

I have two (rather niche) projects on MELPA:

I have also contributed to EMMS and ivy-bibtex.