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