Talks

Invited talks

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

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)