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Five-minute surrealist antiwar exposition of topological data analysis

On Remembrance Day 2021 (11 November) I have a talk at a session of Lightning Talks at a session on “Mathematics for Data Analysis, AI & Machine Learning” organised by the Monash Data Futures Institute. This was a “Lightning Talk”

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General tips for studying mathematics

I don’t know that I would have anything to say that’s not a platitude, but here are some thoughts.

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Summarise your maths research in one slide, Dan

As part of an upcoming workshop participants were asked to introduce themselves with a one-page slide. I took it as an extreme form of concision: summarise your maths research in one slide, Dan.

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One line Euler line

A fun fact from Euclidean geometry that I thought was a wonderful enough gem to share. It’s standard, but it’s nowhere near any curriculum. I’ll try not to get too snarky about the curriculum.

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I got problems – congruence problems

On 7 December 2020 I gave a (virtual) lecture at the Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee’s School of Excellence on congruences.

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From Here to Hensel

Here’s a nice maths problem, which I thought it would be fun to discuss. The question doesn’t involve any advanced concepts, but it leads on to a very nice result called Hensel’s lemma.

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Return of the Euler-Fermat theorem

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far away, I wrote up an account of the Euler-Fermat theorem for school students.

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Topology: The shape of space

Monash Open Day in 2020 was a purely online affair, thanks to COVID. I recorded a video talking about Topology: The Shape of Space.

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Sitting out the math wars

Very few professional mathematicians have been involved in the “math wars”, and when they have, they have not always inspired confidence. I wondered why.

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Not human, but inhabited by humans: writing mathematics

Mathematics can be written in many ways. One approach, very popular with professional pure mathematicians, is to write as little as possible. But there should also be others.

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  • A Symplectic Basis for 3-manifold Triangulations, AustMS 2021
  • Five-minute surrealist antiwar exposition of topological data analysis
  • General tips for studying mathematics
  • Summarise your maths research in one slide, Dan
  • One line Euler line
  • Ptolemy vs Thurston in Hyperbolic Geometry and Topology, AustMS 2020
  • I got problems – congruence problems
  • From Here to Hensel
  • Return of the Euler-Fermat theorem
  • Topology: The shape of space
  • University forever
  • Sitting out the math wars
  • Not human, but inhabited by humans: writing mathematics
  • A-polynomials, Ptolemy varieties, and Dehn filling, Melbourne June 2020
  • Monash topology talk on Circle packings, Lagrangian Grassmannians, and Scattering Diagrams, April 2020
  • A-polynomials, Ptolemy varieties and Dehn filling
  • AustMS 2019 talk on geometry and physics of circle packings
  • The sensitivity conjecture, induced subgraphs of cubes, and Clifford algebras
  • Talk in Monash discrete mathematics seminar, September 2019
  • “I liked doing what I wasn’t supposed to do”: the life and mathematics of Karen Uhlenbeck
  • Monash topology talk on sensitivity conjecture and Clifford algebras, July 2019
  • Breakthroughs in primary school arithmetic
  • Uniqueness of contact structures and tomography
  • Convex surfaces and tomography
  • Liouville structures and convex surfaces
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