Talks

Invited talks

Title TBD - talk at the "Geometry and combinatorics of Schubert calculus" workshop in the New Frontiers at the intersection of combinatorics and representation theory thematic program at CRM Montreal (May 2027)

Title TBD - 45 minute talk at the special session "Algebra and Geometry in Computations" at JMM Chicago (January 13 2026)

m=1 Grasstopes - talk at the Amplituhedra and Total Positivity (AToP) Workshop at UC Davis (August 4 2026)

Computing Voronoi cells of metric graphs - talk in the “Computational Algebraic Geometry” workshop at the Foundations of Computational Mathematics Conference (July 2026)

Tropical KP Theory - talk at The University of Illinois Algebra-Geometry-Combinatorics Seminar (April 29 2026)

Tropical KP Theory - talk at the Central Michigan University Geometry Seminar (April 17 2026)

The KP equation through combinatorics and geometry - colloquium talk at Central Michigan University (April 16 2026)

Tropical KP Theory - talk at the MPI-CBG Dresden math seminar (March 26 2026)

Tropical KP Theory - talk at the Integrable Systems and Mathematical Physics Seminar at the University of Glasgow (March 17 2026)

Normal fans of Voronoi cells and theta functions - talk in the ``Algebra and combinatorics of amplitudes" workshop at the Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry thematic programme at ESI Vienna (March 2026)

KP solitons from algebraic curves and the positive Grassmannian - talk at the Combinatorics Seminar at UC Berkeley (November 5 2025)

Normal Fans of Voronoi Cells and Theta Functions - talk at Michigan math-physics amplitudes workshop (October 26 2025)

The Positive Orthogonal Grassmannian - talk at the session “Notions of Positivity, Preserving Transforms, and Inequalities” at the AMS Fall Eastern Virtual Sectional Meeting (October 2025)

KP solitons from algebraic curves and the positive Grassmannian -talk at the Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory Seminar at the University of Michigan (September 22 2025)

Positivity and combinatorics in geometry: from algebraic curves to the KP equation - postdoctoral short talk at the University of Michigan (August 18 2025)

The positive orthogonal Grassmannian - talk at the minisymposium on "total positivity and applications" at CanaDAM (May 2025)

Voronoi Cells, Zonotopes, and Tropical Algebraic Curves - colloquium at Drexel University (April 30 2025)

KP solitons from algebraic curves and the positive Grassmannian - talk at the CAGE seminar (April 24 2025)

KP solitons, tropical curves, and Voronoi cells - talk at the special year Seminar at IAS (April 9, 2025)

KP solitons from algebraic curves and the positive Grassmannian - talk at the algebra Seminar at Temple University (January 27, 2025)

What is the Schottky problem? - talk at the "What is.." seminar at IAS (December 12 2024)

Combinatorics of m = 1 Grasstopes - talk at the Noetherian Ring seminar at Princeton (September 30 2024)

KP solitons from algebraic curves and the positive Grassmannian - postdoctoral short talk at IAS (September 26 2024)

Crossing the transcendental divide: from Riemann surfaces to algebraic curves - guest lecture at Euler Circle (June 10 2024)

Combinatorics of m = 1 Grasstopes - talk at the conference on Amplituhedra, Cluster algebras and Positive Geometry at Harvard (May 29 2024)

From algebraic geometry and combinatorics to physics - colloquium talk at Bar-Ilan University (March 3 2024)

Grasstopes - talk at the Conference on Positive Geometry in Particle Physics and Cosmology at MPI MiS Leipzig (February 15 2024)

Crossing the transcendental divide: from translation surfaces to algebraic curves - talk at the mini-workshop on ”Model Theory meets Nonlinear Algebra” at UC Berkeley (November 27, 2023)

Combinatorics of m=1 Grasstopes - seminar talk at the Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics at MIT (October 18, 2023)

Combinatorics of m=1 Grasstopes - seminar talk at the Brown Combinatorics Seminar (October 16, 2023)

Combinatorics of m=1 Grasstopes - seminar talk at the UCLA combinatorics forum (October 5, 2023)

Curves, degenerations, and Hirota varieties - seminar talk at the combinatorics seminar at the University of Michigan (September 15, 2023)

Grassmann Polytopes - seminar talk at the combinatorics learning seminar at the University of Michigan (September 13, 2023)

KP solutions from nodal curves and the Schottky problem - talk at the mini-symposium on 'Algebraic Curves, Integrable Systems, and Computer Algebra' at the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry in Eindhoven, the Netherlands (July 10th, 2023)

Grassmann Polytopes - seminar talk at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (May 16th, 2023)

Crossing the transcendental divide: from translation surfaces to algebraic curves - talk at the Algebra Seminar at Georgia Tech (February 27th, 2023)

Crossing the transcendental divide: from translation surfaces to algebraic curves - seminar talk at the university of Tübingen (January 18th, 2023)

The transcendental divide: From Translation Surfaces to Algebraic Curves - talk in AMS special session on Riemann Surfaces at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (January 6th, 2023)

Pencils of quadrics, old and new - talk in AMS Special Session on Applied Enumerative Geometry at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (January 5th, 2023)

From Translation Surfaces to Algebraic Curves - talk at the Nonlinear Algebra Seminar at UC Berkeley (December 6, 2022) slides

Curves, degenerations, and Hirota varieties - talk at the Workshop on Nonlinear Algebra and Combinatorics from Physics at Harvard (April 29, 2022)

From Translation Surfaces to Algebraic Curves - talk at the Combinatorics & Nonlinear Algebra Day at Brown (April 26, 2022)

Curves, degenerations, and Hirota varieties - Seminar on Nonlinear Algebra, MPI MiS Leipzig (March 30, 2022)

The Hirota Variety of a Rational Nodal Curve - talk at the Leipzig Lectures on Theta, MPI MiS Leipzig (March 17, 2022)

Curves, degenerations, and Hirota varieties - talk at the Seminar in Real & Complex Geometry at Tel-Aviv University (March 10, 2022)

Hirota Varieties - talk at the Algebra, Geometry, and Combinatorics Seminar at San Francisco State University (September 29, 2021) slides

Hirota Varieties - talk at the Seminar on Nonlinear Algebra, MPI MiS Leipzig (July 23, 2021)

KP Solitons From Tropical Limits -talk at the Mathematical Congress of the Americas, special session on Mathematical-Physical Aspects of Toric and Tropical Geometry (July 12, 2021) slides

Rank-One Transformations - guest lecture at Euler Circle, Ergodic Theory class (March 13, 2019)

On graphs representable by pattern-avoiding words - talk at combinatorics seminar, University of Haifa (January 1, 2017)

Contributed talks/sessions/lectures

Introduction to tropical arithmetic and curves - talk in the Learning Seminar in Algebraic Combinatorics at the University of Michigan (September 22 2025)

The positive orthogonal Grassmannian - talk at FPSAC (July 2025)

The Combinatorics of m=1 Grasstopes - talk at Number Theory and Combinatorics in Duluth: Honoring Joe Gallian and 45 years of the Duluth REU, Duluth, Minnesota (August, 2023)

From Translation Surfaces to Algebraic Curves - poster at Combinatorial, Computational, and Applied Algebraic Geometry, University of Washington, Seattle (June 27, 2022)

Introduction to Macaulay2 - Mathematical computing virtual workshop by UCB and UBC (April 8, 2022)

Hurwitz spaces and Hurwitz numbers - BLT learning Seminar on Plane Hurwitz numbers (February 11, 2022)

Applications of Nonlinear Algebra to Integrable Systems - seminar on Nonlinear Algebra and Applications (April 22, 2021)

Tropical Hypersurfaces - Reading group on Tropical Geometry (November 27, 2020)

Implicitization and Group Theory - Reading group on Tropical Geometry (September 25, 2020)

Two-dimensional Linear Spaces of Symmetric Matrices - Online Session lead jointly with Claudia Fevola and Bernd Sturmfels (July 27, 2020)

Non-Rigid Rank-One Infinite Measures on the Circle - talk at Joint Mathematics Meetings (January 16, 2019) slides

On graphs representable by pattern-avoiding words - talk at Joint Mathematics Meetings (January 7, 2017)