Talks

I am happy to give seminar talks about my research. If you are interested, please send me an email.

Research Talks

  • On The Drinfeld Center of the Temperley–Lieb Category.

    AMS Fall Western Sectional: Special Session on Recent Developments in Tensor Categories and Their Applications, Nov 7, 2026 (Tempe, AZ)

  • The Drinfeld Center of the Generic Temperley–Lieb Category.

    University of Georgia Algebra Seminar, Nov 2 (Athens, GA)

  • On The Drinfeld Center of the Temperley–Lieb Category.

    Conference on Tensor Categories in Representation Theory & vice versa, Aug 24, 2026 (Uppsala, Sweden).

  • The Drinfeld Center of the Generic Temperley–Lieb Category. Slides

    University of Oregon Algebra Seminar, May 14 (Eugene, OR)

  • A Temperley–Lieb Category for sl2-Crystals. Slides

    Workshop on New Developments in Tensor Categories, Jan 27, 2026 (BIRS, Banff, Canada).

  • A Temperley–Lieb Category for sl2-Crystals.

    Conference on Diagrammatic Categorification, October 21, 2025 (ICERM, Providence, RI).

  • Distinct distances with \(\ell_p\) metrics. Slides

    Joint Mathematical Meetings, Jan 7, 2023 (Boston, MA)

Expository Talks

  • Representation Theory without Vectors.

    University of Oregon’s AMS Graduate Research Symposium, May 16 (Eugene, OR)

  • Representation Theory of Finite Inverse Monoids (after Steinberg).

    Student Algebra Seminar, Apr 9, 2026 (University of Oregon)

  • Littleman Paths Crystals (after Mathieu).

    Student Algebra Seminar, Feb 25, 2025 (University of Oregon)

  • 3-Dimensional TQFTs and Modular Tensor Categories.

    Student Algebra Seminar, Feb 13, 2024 (University of Oregon)

  • Spiders for Rank 2 Quantum Groups (after Kuperberg).

    Student Algebra Seminar, Oct 31, 2023 (University of Oregon)

  • Introduction to Khovanov homology (after Bar-Natan).

    Student Algebra Seminar, May 7, 2023 (University of Oregon).

  • Recurrence of distributional limits of finite planar graphs (after Benjamini & Schramm).

    Student Counting Seminar, May 2, 2023 (University of Oregon).

  • Deligne’s Theorem on Symmetric Tensor Categories.

    Student Algebra Seminar, Nov 22, 2022 (University of Oregon).

  • Erdős’s Distinct Distances Problem.

    Student Counting Seminar, Nov 10, 2022 (University of Oregon).

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