Talks
The list below is not complete and is not regularly updated. For a video interview aimed at non-experts, see Miscellaneous page.
Materials from some of the previous talks
The First International Knot Theory Congress, 02/2025, “On Embedded Essential Surfaces in Alternating Links and Other 3-Manifolds” video
Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) conference, Sorbonne, Paris, 06/2023, “Distribution of links and their volume in new random link model based on meanders” slides and abstract
Computational Aspects of Discrete Subgroups of Lie Groups workshop, ICERM, 06/2021, “PSL(2,C)-representations of knot groups by knot diagrams” video
Mathematical Conversations, IAS, Princeton, 02/2021, “How hard is it to tell two knots apart?” slides
SODA computer science conference, 01/2021, “Unlinking, splitting, and some other NP-hard problems in knot theory” video
Institute for Advanced Study, Members seminar, 12/2020, “NP-hard problems naturally arising in knot theory” video
AMS meeting, Penn State University, 10/2020, “Tangle decompositions of alternating link complements” video (requires AMS login, minutes 24-42)
CUNY geometry and topology seminar, 4/2020, “The number of surfaces of fixed genus embedded in a 3-manifold” video
GEAR seminar at Rutgers University, Newark, 1/2017, “The number of surfaces of fixed genus in an alternating link complement”video
Redbud Triangulations conference, Oklahoma State University, 11/2016, “Isotopy classes of crossing arcs in alternating links” slides
The Thin Manifold conference, University of Iowa, 08/2014, “Intrinsic geometry and the invariant trace field of hyperbolic 3-manifolds” slides
Women Advancing Arizona Mathematics Colloquium, University of Arizona, 03/2014, “Hyperbolic links: diagrams, volume and the colored Jones polynomial” slides
Low dimensional topology, knots, and orderable groups, Luminy-Marseille, France, 07/2013, “Exact volume of hyperbolic 2-bridge links” slides
GEAR Network Retreat, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 08/2012, “Hyperbolic structures from link diagrams” video
Moab Topology Conference, Utah State University, 05/2012, “An alternative approach to hyperbolic structures on link complements” slides