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The work of Maryam Mirzakhani

In August 2017 I gave a talk on some of the mathematics of Maryam Mirzakhani, the great Iranian mathematician, first female Fields Medallist. This was a Monash LunchMaths seminar.

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Maths week talk at PLC

I gave an outreach talk to secondary students at PLC about mathematics and mathematicians, talking about, among other things, topology, Maryam Mirzakhani, and billiards, in July 2017. Slides are available.

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Mathematics, mathematicians, philosophy

In December 2016 I gave a talk to secondary school students about mathematics and mathematical philosophy.

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The story of a paradox

My story of Bertrand Russell, given at The Laborastory, a monthly science storytelling event in Melbourne.

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Riddle. Mystery. Enigma.

I appear in a rather excellent and fun episode of the ABC Radio National program Radiotonic.

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Why your calculator is a weapon

I gave a talk about the Defence Trade Cooperation Act, encryption, and number theory, as part of the Monash University LunchMaths seminar series, in August 2015. Slides are available.

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To mathematics champions

In November 2014, I spoke at the Victorian prize ceremony for the Australian Mathematics Competition.

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LunchMaths topology, Aug 2014

I gave an introductory talk on Topology, as part of the Monash University LunchMaths seminar series, in August 2014. Slides are available.

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LunchMaths hyperbolic geometry, Sep 2013

I gave an introductory talk on Hyperbolic Geometry, as part of the Monash University LunchMaths seminar series, in September 2013. Slides are available.

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Recent popular talks

  • “There is always room for a new theory in mathematics”: Maryna Viazovska and her mathematics
  • May 12 talk on Maryam Mirzakhani
  • Five-minute surrealist antiwar exposition of topological data analysis
  • I got problems – congruence problems
  • Topology: The shape of space
  • “I liked doing what I wasn’t supposed to do”: the life and mathematics of Karen Uhlenbeck
  • The beauty of mathematics shows itself to patient followers
  • Is the traditional mathematics blackboard lecture dead?
  • Some pure mathematics and consciousness
  • Sciencey: Why do earphones get tangled?
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