Selected talks
“A brief tour of wasan techniques,” Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) seminar, "Wasan at the Crossroads: Towards a Global Study of Japanese Mathematics," Waseda University, Tokyo. March 2025.
“Mathematical eddies of Edo Japan,” virtual guest lecture, WSU–Vancouver. March 2023.
“Samurai, kissing circles, and the geometry of Shinto shrines,” Banquet address at the Fall 2019 Meeting of the MD-DC-VA Section of the MAA, Norfolk State University. October 2019.
“Why I love teaching Intro Stats (now),” MAA MD-DC-VA Section Meeting, VMI. April 2018.
“The Gion shrine problem,” Analysis, Logic, and Physics Seminar, VCU. October 2017.
“Discovering Tokugawa mathematics: A quest for sangaku,” ASIANetwork Conference, St. Petersburg, FL. March 2016.
“Geometry in 18th century Japan: Exploring and creating sangaku,” MAA MD-DC-VA Section Meeting, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. November 2015.
“Dimension and direction: A journey through mathematical space,” MAA MathFest, Portland, OR. August 2014.
“The celestial element method: Finding polynomial roots in 18th century Japan,” MAA MD-DC-VA Section Meeting, Longwood University. November 2013.
“Guesses, metrics, and basketball,” MAA MathFest, Madison, WI. August 2012.
“Khovanov homology for knotted webs,” Special Session on Invariants of Knots, AMS Central Sectional Meeting, University of Kansas. March 2012.
“Categorifying higher su(3) knot polynomials,” University of Virginia Topology Seminar. March 2011.
“An action of the symmetric group on su(3) Khovanov homology,” Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, AMS Western Sectional Meeting, UCLA. October 2010.
“Knotty math and the Jones polynomial,” Towson University Math Colloquium. February 2010.
“Functoriality for the su(3) Khovanov homology,” Special session on categorification, AMS/MAA Joint Meetings in DC. January 2009.