T. Shaska: Talks

This is a complete list of talks that I have given since my very first talk as a student in 1998. It doesn't include talks in the algebra seminar in my own department. Click on the title to check out the slides.  

1. Beyond Prediction: Crafting AI That Thinks with Graded Intelligence, Plenary talk, ACA 2026, June 2026, Prishtina, Kosova

2. Artificial Neural Networks over Graded Vector Spaces, 
   Webinar: Vector Symbolic Architectures and Hyperdimensional Computing
   Organized by Luleå University of Technology, Sweden and UC Berkeley, USA.

3. Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Research (Lecture Series)
   AIMS 2025, Dec. 15-19, 2025, Shkodër, Albania

4. Graded Quantum Codes,The Interplay Between Distance Geometry, Combinatorics, and Coding Theory
   Brin Mathematics Research Center, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, Nov. 18-21, 2025

5. TBA, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, October 2025

6. Weighted hypersurfaces over finite fields. Fifth Pythagorean Conference, Kalamata, Greece, June 2025. 

7. Reduction of binary forms, Julia invariant, and machine learning,
   Department of Mathematics Colloquium, Utah State University, October 17, 2024

8. Machine models for weighted spaces,  Data, Numbers, and Geometry,
   DANGER 2024, London Institute for Mathematical Sciences,  August 8-9, 2024

9. Genus 2 curves with (n,n)-split Jacobians  and Isogeny Based Cryptography,
   Advanced Research Workshop on Isogeny based Crryptography, Jerusalem, July 29-31, 2024

10. Automorphism loci of rational functions of the projective line,
    Automorphisms of Riemann surfaces and related topics, AMS Meeting #1195, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, April 20-21, 2024.

11. Machine Learning and Julia Invariant,
    Artificial Intelligence in Mathematics, AMS Meeting #1195, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, April 20-21, 2024.

12. Hybrid AI-Math, Feb. 27-29, 2024,
    Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, State University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil,  Lectures on

    1. An introduction to Equivariant Neural Networks

    2. A machine learning approach to Julia reduction

    3. Neural networks and weighted moduli spaces

13. Artificial Intelligence in Mathematics., Mathematics Colloquium, University of Toledo, Fab. 9, 2024

14. Machine Learning in the Moduli Space of Curves, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 17, 2023

15. Machine Learning in the Moduli Space of Curves,
    Department of Mathematics Colloquium, University of Pristina, April 6, 2023

16. Genus  2 curves with (n,n) -split Jacobians and  isogeny based cryptography,
    AMS Special Session on Cryptography, April 1, 2023 

17. Computation on moduli spaces: an introduction to weighted moduli heights, (cancelled)
    AMS Section Meeting, Special Session on Moduli of Curves, Hilbert Schemes, and Tropical Geometry, Tufts University, Medford, MA, March 20-22, 2020.

18. The addition on Jacobian varieties from a geometric viewpoint, (cancelled)
    AMS Section Meeting, Special Session on Automorphisms of Riemann Surfaces, Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups and Related Topics, Tufts University, Medford, MA, March 20-22, 2020.

19. Educating the good citizen: an algebraic viewpoint, (cancelled), AMS Section Meeting, Special Session on Cyber defense and cryptography in undergraduate education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 13-15, 2020

20. Weighted greatest common divisors and weighted heights, (cancelled), AMS Section Meeting, Special Session on Curves, Jacobians, and Abelian Varieties, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 13-15, 2020

21. Heights on weighted projective varieties,, Department of Mathematics Colloquium, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dec. 19, 2019.

22. Addition on Jacobian varieties from a geometric viewpoint,
    Department of Mathematics Colloquium, University of Athens, Greece, October 17, 2019.

23. Weighted heights and moduli space of Abelian covers,
    Explicit Methods for Abelian and Calabi-Yau varieties, Utah State University, Logan, UT.

24. Isogenies of 3-dimensional Jacobians,
    Mathematical Cryptology, Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting University of Connecticut Hartford, Hartford, CT

25. Curves, automorphisms, and their Jacobians
    College of Charleston, March 19, 2019. Charleston, SC.

26. Superelliptic curves with complex multiplication,
    Santander, Spain, Feb. 8. 2019

27. Generalized Jacobi polynomials
    Department of Mathematics Colloquium, University of Toledo, Jan. 18, 2019.

28. Hyrje tek kurbat algjebrike
    Tirana Winter School, Dec 27-28, 2018

29. Heights on weighted projective spaces,
    Algebra Seminar, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

30. Heights on weighted projective spaces,
    AMS Special Session: From hyperelliptic to superelliptic curves, Ann Arbor, MI. November, 2018.

31. Abelian Varieties and Cryptography, Algebraic Curves, Integrable Systems, and Cryptography, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine

32. The group law for the Jacobi variety of a hyperelliptic curves,
    Utah State, Logan, Utah

33. Riemann surfaces with extra automorphisms and endomorphism rings of their Jacobians,
    Special Session on Automorphisms of Riemann Surfaces and Related Topics, AMS Sectional Meeting in Portland, OR. April 14-15, 2018.

34. Isogenies of Abelian varieties,
    Algebraic curves and their applications, AMS Sectional Meeting in Columbus, OH. March 17-18, 2018

35. Isogenies of Abelian varieties,
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

36. From hyperelliptic to superelliptic curves,
    Algebraic curves and their applications, AMS Sectional Meeting in Orlando, FL. September 22-23, 2017.

37. From hyperelliptic to superelliptic curves,
    Department of Mathematics, US Naval Academy, April 22, 2017.

38. A pair of universal curves of genus 2,
    AMS Joint Meeting in Atlanta, GA. January, 4-7, 2017.

39. Theta functions and symmetric weight enumerators for codes over imaginary quadratic fields,
    AMS Special Session on Coding Theory and Its Applications, Chicago, Oct. 3-4, 2015

40. Julia quadratic of superelliptic Riemann surfaces,
    AMS Special Session on Riemann surfaces and their automorphisms, Chicago, Oct. 3-4, 2015

41. Elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography in the automotive systems,
    Intrepid Cybersecurity Solutions, Madison Heights, Michigan, September 15, 2015.

42. Integral minimal models for binary forms,
    Mathematics Colloquium, University of Florida, Gainesville.

43. Binary forms of minimal height,
    AMS Sectional Meeting, East Lansing

44. Heights on algebraic curves,
    NATO ASI, Ohrid, 2015

45. Minimal models for curves over their minimal field of definition,
    ACA 2014, New York.

46. Genus 3 hyperelliptic curves with (2, 4, 4) split Jacobians,
    ACA 2014, New York.

47. Minimal equations of curves over their minimal field of definition,
    Southeastern Spring Sectional Meeting University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Meeting #1097

48. Decomposition of Jacobians of superelliptic curves,
    Riemann and Klein Surfaces, Symmetries and Moduli Spaces, Linkoping, Sweden

49. Automorphisms of curves and their Jacobians,
    AMS Special Session on on Computational Advances on Special Functions and Tropical Geometry, Iowa State University

50. Stratifications on moduli spaces of curves and superelliptic loci,
    MCAG 2013, Western Michigan University

51. Genus 3 hyperelliptic curves with split Jacobians and many rational points,
    Mathematics Colloquium, Georgia Southern University

52. Some remarks on binary octavics,
    Mathematics Colloquium, Michigan Tech. University

53. Some remarks on binary octavics,
    Mathematics Colloquium, Cleveland State University

54. An introduction to the invariant theory of binary forms,
    Mathematics Colloquium, Duquesne University

55. A historical view of theta functions
    (plenary talk), Conference on Applications of Algebra, Yildiz University, Istanbul, Turkey

56. Thetanulls of algebraic curves and some applications,
    AMS Special session on Computational Algebraic Geometry, Tampa, Florida

57. Interesting families of algebraic curves,
    Joint AMS Meeting, Special Session on Mathematics of Computation

58. Half-integer theta-nulls of superelliptic curves,
    AMS Sectional Meeting: Special Session on Computational and Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry, Salt Lake City

59. Theta Functions of algebraic curves,
    Special Session on theta functions, SIAM National Conference, Raleigh

60. Computational aspects of low genus curves,
    Laurier Centennial Conference: AMMCS-2011, Waterloo

61. Theta-nulls of algebraic curves,
    10th Panhellenic Geometry Conference, Patras, Greece

62. Hybrid Methodologies for Symbolic-Numeric Computation,
    MSRI, Berkeley

63. Automorphism groups of superelliptic curves,
    Workshop on Mathematical Cryptology, University of Cantabria, Spain

64. Theta functions in coding theory,
    Mathematics Colloquium, University of Delaware

65. Genus 2 curves covering elliptic curves,
    Mathematics Colloquium, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

66. Equations of curves with automorphisms,
    AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Numerical and Symbolic Techniques in Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, DePaul University

67. Remarks on some old problems of algebraic geometry,
    Mathematics Colloquium, Michigan Tech.

68. A historical view of theta functions,
    Mathematics Colloquium, Lublin, Poland

69. Codes over rings of size four, lattices, and their theta functions,
    Mathematics Colloquium, Lublin, Poland

70. Some open problems in computational geometry,
    Mathematics Colloquium, University of MichiganDearborn

71. Theta functions and automorphism groups of curves,
    Galoistheorie Kolloquium, Institut für Experimentelle Mathematik (IEM), Essen, Germany

72. Theta functions and application to coding theory,
    (ACA 2006), Varna, Bulgaria

73. Hyperelliptic curves with reduced automorphism group A5,
    AMS Western section, Santa Barbara

74. Genus 2 curves that admit a degree 5 map to an elliptic curve,
    Joint AMS meeting, Atlanta

75. Genus 2 curves with (5, 5) split Jacobian,
    Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Essen, Germany

76. Field of moduli of curves, a computational approach,
    Workshop Computational Arithmetic Geometry, PIMS Simon Fraiser University, Vancouver

77. Genus 2 curves with degree 5 elliptic subcovers,
    991-14-21 AMS, Southeastern Section Meeting, Chapel Hill

78. Determining the automorphism group of algebraic curves,
    ISSAC 03, Drexler University, Philadelphia

79. Computational aspects of hyperelliptic curves,
    ACA 03, Raleigh, NC

80. The monodromy group of a generic curve covering P^1,
    Joint International Meeting of AMS and RSME, Seville, Spain

81. Computational aspects of hyperelliptic curves,
    University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

82. Loci of hyperelliptic curves with prescribed group action,
    Computational Aspects of Algebraic Curves, and Cryptography, Gainesville

83. Hyperelliptic curves with non-hyperelliptic involutions
    983-14-115 AMS, JMN, Baltimore

84. Hyperelliptic curves with extra automorphisms,
    Galois Theory Conference, John Thompson’s 70th birthday, University of Florida, Gainesville

85. Field of definition and field of moduli of hyperelliptic curves,
    University of Florida Mathematics Colloquium, Gainesville, Florida

86. Computational aspects of algebraic geometry,
    Algebra seminar, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

87. Genus 2 curves with (3,3)-split Jacobian and large automorphism group,
    ANTS V, International Symposium in Algorithmic Number Theory, Sydney, Australia

88. Automorphisms and elliptic subfields of genus 2 fields,
    972-14-47 AMS, Southwestern Sectional Meeting, Groups and Covering Spaces in Algebraic Geometry, Irvine, CA

89. The automorphism groups of Riemann surfaces,
    University of Florida Colloquium, Gainesville, Florida, September 11, 2001 (talk cancelled).

90. Elliptic subfields and automorphisms of genus 2 curves,
    University of Erlangen, Germany

91. Computing the locus of genus 2 fields with degree 2 or 3 elliptic subfields,
    Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Essen, Germany

92. Some Computational Aspects of Genus 2 Curves,
    Number Theory Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

93. Genus 2 curves covering elliptic curves,
    Workshop on Arithmetic Geometry, MSRI, Berkeley, CA

94. Modular curves and Hurwitz spaces,
    Conference on Topological Groups, TU-München, Germany, June 2000.

95. Curves of genus two with (n,n)-decomposable Jacobians,
    AG Gruppentheorie, Erlangen, Germany, March 2000.

96. Explicit equation of certain Hurwitz spaces,
    University of Heidelberg, Germany, May 1999.

97. Rigid tuples and monodromy groups
    Conference on ABC-conjecture, Tucson, Arizona, March 1998. (student project)