Talks & Posters
Upcoming: Lie Theory and its Applications in Physics
June 16-22, 2025, Varna, Bulgaria
Title: TBD
Lehigh Geometry Seminar
November 18, 2024
Lehigh University
Title: Holomorphic Conformal Geometry is Special
VT Geometry & Topology Seminar
September 10, 2024
Virginia Tech
Title: Remarks on the geometry of K3 surfaces and their complex structure moduli spaces
Workshop on Fibration and Degeneration in Calabi-Yau Geometry
June 26, 2024
Harvard CMSA
Title: Mirror Symmetry from Irrationality Proofs and A Proposal for Local Invariants
String Math 2024
June 13, 2024
ICTP
Title: Modularity of certain Gromov-Witten invariants from K3 mirror symmetry, irrationality of zeta values, and the Gamma conjecture
VT Math Club
April 2, 2024
Virginia Tech
Title: Some geometry associated with values of the Riemann zeta function
Special Holonomy and Geometric Structures on Complex Manifolds
March 14, 2024
IMPA
Poster Title: Holomorphic conformal structures on the moduli space of complex structures of lattice polarized K3 surfaces
Greenland Science Week Science Festival
November 3, 2023
Arctic Danish Technical University
Title: Towards Place-Based Mathematics Education Centering Arctic Indigenous Communities
VT Algebra Seminar
September 15, 2023
Virginia Tech
Title: Some modular forms and Calabi-Yau varieties from irrationality proofs and mirror symmetry
Annual Harry S. Kieval Lecture
May 26, 2023
Southern Oregon University
Title: Elliptic Curves Are Not Ellipses (and that’s a good thing)
Honorarium: $1000
VT Geometry & Topology Seminar
March 23, 2023
Virginia Tech
Title: On holomorphic anomalies of the signature operator and elliptic curves
AMS Special Session: Excursions in Arithmetic Geometry
January 6, 2023
JMM 2023
Title: On the periods of Seiberg-Witten curves and connections to some Abelian surfaces
VT Algebra Seminar
April 22, 2022
Virginia Tech
Title: On the geometry of quadratic period relations on K3 surfaces of high Picard rank
UConn Mathematical Physics Seminar
April 6, 2022
University of Connecticut
Title: On vanishing Yukawa couplings and the Picard-Fuchs equations of Lattice Polarized K3 surfaces
VT String Group
March 2, 2022
Virginia Tech
Title: Computing Picard-Fuchs equations from vanishing Yukawa couplings of lattice polarized K3 surfaces
Joint Mathematics Meeting 2021
January 8, 2021
Virtual
Title: Differential Geometry of the Seigel Modular Threefold & algebro-arithmetic data of certain K3 surfaces
Together We Teach Conference
August 25, 2020
Utah State University
Title: Using remote delivery as an opportunity to enhance students mathematical writing
Together We Teach Conference
August 22, 2019
Utah State University
Title: Helping Students Transition from Computations to Writers of Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry and Mathematical Physics: Explicit Methods for Abelian and Calabi-Yau varieties
July 5, 2019
Utah State University
Title: Resolving Holomorphic Anomalies on Elliptic Surfaces
USU Student Research Symposium
April 10, 2019
Utah State University
Title: Gravitational Anomalies and Elliptic Curves
Notes: Awarded “Outstanding Graduate Oral
Presentation” in Physical Sciences
Jim Isenberg Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting 35
March 29, 2019
Utah State University
Title: Gravitational Anomalies and the Universal Bundle of Elliptic Curves
General Relativity as a Challenge for Physics Education
February 14, 2019
690. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef
Poster Title: Teaching 2nd Year Undergraduates how to Derive and Study the Geodesic Equations for the Schwarzschild Black Hole
Notes: Awarded “Best Poster” Prize in the
category of Teaching Resources
DGCAMP Student Daze: Our Relative Progression
April 20, 2018
Utah State University
Title: Hypergeometric Differential Equations and Calabi-Yau Manifolds
MAA 2018 Intermountain Sectional Meeting
March 23, 2018
Utah State University
Title: Exterior Products of PDEs and Geometry of Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Idaho - Utah Differential Geometry Rendezvous
October 28, 2017
Idaho State University
Title: Linear Systems of PDEs and Geometry of Calabi-Yau Manifolds