On 15 June 2020 I gave a talk in the topology seminar at the University of Melbourne, entitled “A-polynomials, Ptolemy varieties, and Dehn filling.”
Monash topology talk on Circle packings, Lagrangian Grassmannians, and Scattering Diagrams, April 2020
On 1 April 2020 I gave a talk in the Monash topology seminar, entitled “Circle packings, Lagrangian Grassmannians, and scattering diagrams”.
AustMS 2019 talk on geometry and physics of circle packings
On 4 December 2019 I gave a talk in the Topology session of the 2019 Australian Mathematical Society meeting, entitled “Geometry and physics of circle packings”.
Talk in Monash discrete mathematics seminar, September 2019
On 16 September 2019 I gave a talk in the Monash discrete mathematics seminar. The talk was entitled “The sensitivity conjecture, induced subgraphs of cubes, and Clifford algebras”.
Monash topology talk on sensitivity conjecture and Clifford algebras, July 2019
On 31 July 2019 I gave a talk at Monash University in the topology seminar, entitled “The sensitivity conjecture, induced subgraphs of cubes, and Clifford algebras”.
The beauty of mathematics shows itself to patient followers
In September 2018 I gave a talk on the life and mathematics of Maryam Mirzakhani in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences colloquium at NTU in Singapore.
Talk on Counting Curves on Surfaces, September 2018
On 19 September 2018 I gave a talk at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in the Topology and Geometry seminar. The talk was entitled “Counting Curves on Surfaces”.
The algebra and geometry of contact categories, Melbourne July 2018
On Monday July 23 2018 I gave a talk in the Geometry and Topology seminar at the University of Melbourne.
Some pure mathematics and consciousness
In November 2017 I gave a talk to the Monash Consciousness Research Laboratory (Tsuchiya Lab). I talked about some pure mathematical ideas that have appeared in the literature on the frontiers of neuroscience and the study of consciousness — gauge theory, and category theory.
Plane graphs, special alternating links, and contact geometry, Sydney Oct 2017
On Thursday October 5 2017 I gave a talk in the Geometry and Topology seminar at the University of Sydney.