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 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.