On 26 April 2023 I gave a talk in the Monash topology seminar. It was entitled “Spinors and horospheres”.
The geometry of spinors in Minkowski space, ANZAMP February 2023
On 7 February I gave a talk at the 2023 ANZAMP meeting, entitled “The geometry of spinors in Minkowski space”.
Geometry, Topology, and the Love of Maths – STELR talk, August 2022
On 15 November 2022 I gave a talk as part of the STELR program on my career path and work.
Oklahoma State topology seminar, November 2022
On 8 November 2022 I gave a zoom talk in the Oklahoma State topology seminar (although it was the 9th in Oklahoma). It was entitled “Symplectic structures in hyperbolic 3-manifold triangulations”.
Talk at Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education, September 2022
On 29 September 2022, my Monash colleague Karen Hogeboom and I presented a poster and gave a talk at the 28th Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (ACSME). The ACSME conference is an annual conference for tertiary science educators
Tsinghua topology seminar: A symplectic approach to 3-manifold triangulations and hyperbolic structures
On 20 September 2022 I gave a zoom talk in the Topology seminar at Tsinghua University, Beijing, entitled “A symplectic approach to 3-manifold triangulations and hyperbolic structures”.
Monash topology talk on Symplectic approach to 3-manifold Triangulations, September 2022
On 14 September 2022 I gave a talk (in person!) in the Monash Topology seminar, entitled “A symplectic approach to 3-manifold triangulations and hyperbolic structures”.
“There is always room for a new theory in mathematics”: Maryna Viazovska and her mathematics
In August 2022 I gave a talk about recent Fields medallist Prof Maryna Viazovska and some of her mathematical work. This was a Monash LunchMaths seminar.
A symplectic basis for 3-manifold triangulations
In the 1980s, Neumann and Zagier introduced a symplectic vector space associated to an ideal triangulation of a cusped 3-manifold, such as a knot complement. We give a geometric interpretation for this symplectic structure in terms of the topology of the 3-manifold, via intersections of certain curves on a Heegaard surface. We also give an algorithm to construct curves forming a symplectic basis.
Invitation to Quantum Topology, MATRIX GT3 July 2022
On 27 July 2022 I gave a talk at MATRIX, as part of the PhD Student Symposium: Graduate Talks in Geometry and Topology Get-Together, also known as (GT)^3. The talk was entitled “Invitation to Quantum Topology”.