Invited talks
| Apr 23, 2024 | I was invited to speak at the Pisa Geometry Seminar about Khovanov homology and exotic surfaces in the 4-ball. |
| Nov 27, 2023 | I was invited to speak at the MPIM Topology Seminar about universal Khovanov homology and its applications. |
| Jan 17, 2023 | I was invited to speak at the Research Seminar on Quantum Topology and Categorification (QTCat) about Khovanov homology and surfaces in the 4-ball. |
| Nov 24, Dec 1, Dec 8, 2022 | I was invited to give a mini-course on Khovanov homology for the Low-Dimensional Topology seminar at MPIM. I gave three talks. |
| Nov 17, 2022 | I was invited to speak at the Mathematics Colloquium at Rutgers-Newark about Seifert surfaces in the 4-ball. |
| Nov 11, 2022 | I was invited to speak at the Philadelphia Area Topology/Contact/Hyperbolic (PATCH) seminar about exotic Seifert surfaces. |
| Sep 22, 2022 | I was invited to speak at the Low-Dimensional Topology seminar at MPIM about exotic Seifert surfaces. |
| Sep 16, 2022 | I was invited to speak at the Algebra and Low-Dimensional Topology minisymposium, part of the DMV Jahrestagung. Here are my slides. |
| Apr 21, 2022 | I was invited to speak at the Princeton Topology Seminar. Here are my slides. |
| Jan 24, 2022 | I was invited to speak at the Duke Geometry & Topology Seminar. Here are my slides. |
| Nov 2, 2021 | I was invited to speak at the University of Oregon Topology Seminar. Here are my slides. |
| Sep 14 - Oct 19, 2021 | I was invited to speak at the PACT (Philadelphia Area Contact Topology) Seminar. I gave a total of five talks over two months. Here are my notes: talk 1; talk 2; talk 3; talk 4; talk 5. |
| Oct 4, 2021 | I was invited to speak at the MIT Geometry and Topology Seminar. Here are my slides. |
| Sep 24, 2021 | I was invited to speak at the Columbia Geometric Topology Seminar. Here are my slides. |
| June 14-25, 2021 | I was invited to be a speaker at the Nearly Carbon Neutral Geometric Topology Conference in the Knots & Braids group. I recorded two talks and wrote a postcard. |
| Apr 14, 2021 | I was invited to speak at the 4-dimensional Topology AIM Research Community: Current Events Seminar. Here are my slides. |
| Nov 26, 2018 | I was invited to speak at the UWL Mathematics and Statistics Club. My talk discussed "An introduction to manifolds." |
| Feb 16, 2017 | I was invited to speak at the Distressing Math Collective at Bryn Mawr College on "The Brouwer fixed point theorem." |
Contributed talks
| Jan 23, 2023 | I gave a talk at the Morphisms in Low Dimensions Workshop at Oberwolfach (MFO) about annular Khovanov homology. |
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| Apr 11, 2022 | I gave a talk at the Open Problem Seminar at MPIM about the Kinoshita conjecture. |
| Oct 31, 2022 | I gave a talk at the Topology in Dimension 4.5 workshop at BIRS about my research on Khovanov homology and twist spun disks. Here is a recording of my talk. |
| Sep 26, 2022 | I gave a talk at the MPIM Topology seminar at MPIM. |
| May 2, 2022 | I gave a talk at the Bryn Mawr Graduate Research Seminar about a solution to a conjecture of Livingston regarding non-isotopic surfaces in the 3-sphere and their isotopy in the 4-ball. We also played Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe. |
| Sep 21, 2021 | I gave a talk at the Bryn Mawr Graduate Research Seminar about a conjecture of Livingston regarding non-isotopic surfaces in the 3-sphere and their isotopy in the 4-ball. |
| June 5, 2020 | I gave a talk at the Bryn Mawr Graduate Research Seminar about my experience teaching before and during the pandemic. |
| Nov 27, 2019 | I gave a talk at the Bryn Mawr Graduate Research Seminar about Khovanov homology. |
| Sep 12, 2019 | I gave a talk at the Bryn Mawr Graduate Research Seminar about the calculus of 4-manifolds and the Mazur cork. |
| Apr 2, 2019 | I gave a talk at the Graduate Student Research Symposium at Bryn Mawr College. My talk was titled "The ins and outs of eversions." |
| Mar 30-31, 2019 | I was invited to give a 5-minute lightning talk at the Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference at UIUC. |
| Mar 23, 2019 | I gave a talk at EPaDel 2019 at King's College. This talk discussed my work attempting to generalize the 4-manifold calculus used in Lisa Piccirillo's celebrated result that the Conway knot is not slice. |
| Mar 24, 2018 | I gave a talk at EPaDel 2018 at Temple University about my master's thesis, "On fibering 3-manifolds." |
| Mar 4, 2018 | I gave a talk at the Graduate Student Research Symposium at Bryn Mawr College. My talk was titled "Your daily dose of fiber (bundles)." |
| Feb 2, 2017 | I gave a talk at the UWL Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium on "The Brouwer fixed point theorem." |
| Mar 12, 2016 | I presented a poster at the Creativity Research Symposium on "Multiplication operators on weighted Banach spaces of a tree." |
| Jan 9, 2016 | I gave a talk at the JMM 2016 on "Multiplication operators on weighted Banach spaces of a tree." |
| Dec 3, 2015 | I gave a talk at the UWL Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium on "The classification of surfaces." |
| Oct 1, 2015 | I gave a talk at the UWL Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium on "Multiplication operators on weighted Banach spaces of a tree." |
| Apr 1, 2015 | I gave my first talk at the Keepin' it \mathbb{R}eal Seminar at UWL on "Dedekind cuts." |
Misc
| Apr 13, 2023 | I successfully defended my dissertation. Here are my slides. |
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| Sep 12, 2018 | I was invited to be a speaker for the fall convocation ceremony at Bryn Mawr College, representing the Graduate Student Association. |
| Apr 26, 2018 | I successfully defended my master's thesis at Bryn Mawr, titled "On fibering 3-manifolds." |