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.
Contact topology and elementary combinatorics, April 2013
On 16 April, 2013 I gave a talk at ANU, for the Algebra and Topology seminar. The talk was entitled “Contact topology and holomorphic invariants via elementary combinatorics”. Slides are available.
Contact topology and holomorphic invariants via elementary combinatorics, Monash Dec 2012
On 7 December, 2012 I gave a talk at Monash University. Slides are available.
Field-theoretic ideas from contact geometry, ANZAMP 2012
On 5 December, 2012 I gave a talk at the Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics (ANZAMP) Inaugural annual meeting. The talk was entitled “Some field-theoretic ideas out of contact geometry and elementary topology”. Slides are available.
Itsy bitsy topological field theory, USC April 2012
On 30 April, 2012 I gave a talk at the University of Southern California, for the Geometry & Topology Seminar. Slides are available.