On 12 January, 2016 I gave a talk at the Workshop on Gromov-Witten theory, Gauge Theory, and Dualities at ANU Kioloa. The talk was entitled “Trinities, sutured Floer homology, and contact structure”. Slides from the talk are available.
Counting curves on surfaces, AustMS Sep 2015
>On 30 September, 2015 I gave a talk at the Australian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting at Flinders University, in Adelaide. The talk was entitled “Counting curves on surfaces”. Slides from the talk are available.
Geometric quantisation and A-polynomials, June 2015
On 12 June, 2015 I gave a talk at the University of Melbourne, in the Moduli Spaces seminar. The talk was entitled “Geometric quantisation and calculation of A-polynomials”.
The A-polynomial, symplectic geometry, and quantisation, May 2015
On 15 May, 2015 I gave a talk at the University of Melbourne, in the Moduli Spaces seminar. The talk was entitled “The A-polynomial, symplectic geometry, and quantisation”.
Contact topology and holomorphic invariants, Feb 2015
On 18 February, 2015 I gave a talk at Tokyo Institute of Technology. The talk was entitled “Contact topology and holomorphic invariants via elementary combinatorics”. Slides are available.
Strings, fermions, curves on surfaces, ANZMC Dec 2014
On 11 December, 2014 I gave a talk at the 8th Australia New Zealand Mathematics Convention, at the University of Melbourne, as part of the Geometry and Topology session. Slides are available.
Strings, fermions, curves on surfaces, Unimelb Oct 2014
On 24 October, 2014 I gave a talk at the University of Melbourne, for the Algebra-Geometry-Topology Seminar. Slides are available.
Discrete contact geometry, May 2014
On 12 May, 2014 I gave a talk at the Monash University Discrete Mathematics Seminar. Slides are available.
A Yang-Baxter equation from sutured Floer homology, Sep 2013
On 30 September, 2013 I gave a talk at the 57th Australian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting, at the University of Sydney, as part of the Geometry and Topology session. Slides are available.
Sutures, quantum groups, TQFT, May 2013
On 24 May, 2013 I gave a talk at the University of Melbourne, for the Algebra-Geometry-Topology Seminar. The talk was entitled “Sutures, quantum groups and topological quantum field theory”. Slides are available.