On September 25, 2017 I gave a talk as part of the Bill Tutte centenary celebration at Monash University.
AustMS talk, December 2016
On 6 December, 2016, I gave a talk at the Austrlaian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting at ANU, Canberra. The talk was entitled “Strand algebras and contact categories”. Slides from the talk are available.
Talks at Low-dimensional topology workshop, Oct-Nov 2016
In October-November 2016 I gave two talks at the MSI Workshop on Low-Dimensional Topology & Quantum Algebra at ANU, Canberra. Some slides are available.
Talk on hyperbolic volume and Mahler measure, April 2016
On 8 April, 2016 I gave a talk at the University of Melbourne in the Knot Invariants seminar. The talk was entitled “Hyperbolic volume and the Mahler measure of the A-polynomial”
Talk on trinities, hypergraphs, contact structures, March 2016
On 14 March, 2016 I gave a talk at Monash University in the Discrete Mathematics seminar. The talk was entitled “Trinities, hypergraphs, and contact structures”. Slides from the talk are available.
Trinities, SFH, contact structures, Kioloa Jan 2016
On 14 March, 2016 I gave a talk at Monash University in the Discrete Mathematics seminar. The talk was entitled “Trinities, hypergraphs, and contact structures”. 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, Tokyo 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.