Selected Presentations & Appearances
New Constructions of Exotic 4-Manifolds
- Seymour Sherman Memorial Lecture
· November 21, 2024
Keynote/Named Lecture
Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN
New Constructions of Exotic 4-Manifolds
- Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern Math Colloquium
· March 14, 2024
Invited Talk
Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
Heegaard Floer homology and closed, exotic 4-manifolds
- Princeton Topology Seminar
· December 14, 2023
Invited Talk
Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ
Heegaard Floer homology and closed, exotic 4-manifolds
- Stanford Topology Seminar
· May 16, 2023
Invited Talk
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
Using Heegaard Floer homology to construct interesting 4-manifolds
- Using quantum invariants to do interesting topology
· October 2022
Invited Talk
Casa Matematica Oaxaca,
Oaxaca, Mexico
Khovanov homology and cobordisms between split links
- Georgia Topology Conference
· May 2022
Invited Talk
University of Georgia,
Athens, GA
Khovanov homology, ribbon concordance, and split cobordisms
- Clay Mathematics Institute Low-Dimensional Topology Workshop
· January 2020
Invited Talk
Oxford University,
Oxford, UK
Simply-connected, spineless 4-manifolds
- Topology of Manifolds: Interactions between High- and Low-Dimensional Topology
· January 2019
Invited Talk
MATRIX Institute,
Creswick, Australia
Khovanov homology and knot Floer homology for pointed links
- TQFT and Categorification Conference
· April 2018
Invited Talk
Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse,
Cargèse, Corsica, France
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
United States of America
Service to the Profession
Summer Research in Mathematics selection committee
·
2022
- 2023
Committee Service
Simons-Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute,
Berkeley, CA
Service to Duke
Director of Undergraduate Studies
·
July 2023
Other
Mathematics Department,
Director of Diversity and Inclusion
·
August 2020
- June 2023
Other
Mathematics Department,
UCEM Sloan Scholars selection committee
(University)
·
2019
- 2023
Committee Service
Selection committee for the Sloan Scholarship for STEM graduate students from under-represented minorities.