Talks and Conferences

Seminar Talks and Participation:

"The equivariant complex cobordism ring of a finite abelian group and its equivariant formal group law", Topology Seminar, Wayne State University, Spring 2015

"Fractals, p-adics, and a problem of Erdős", Hillsdale College Mathematics Colloquium, Hope College Mathematics Colloquium, Albion College Mathematics Colloquium, Spring 2014 - Fall 2014

"The equivariant complex cobordism ring of a finite abelian group", University of Chicago Algebraic Topology Seminar, Northwestern University Topology Seminar, Johns Hopkins University Topology Seminar, University of Minnesota Topology Seminar, and University of Michigan Topology Seminar, Fall 2012-Winter 2013

"Hausdorff dimension of 3-adic Cantor sets", DRW Trading Group, Chicago, IL, October 13, 2012

Organizer, Student Geometry/Topology Seminar, University of Michigan, Winter 2012

"Characteristic classes", Student Geometry/Topology Seminar, University of Michigan, Winter 2012

"Introduction to spectral sequences", Student Geometry/Topology Seminar, University of Michigan, Fall 2011

"Introduction to cobordism", Student Geometry/Topology Seminar, University of Michigan, Fall 2011

"Complex K-theory", Student Geometry/Topology Seminar, University of Michigan, Fall 2011

"Axioms related to the continuum hypothesis", Student Logic Seminar, University of Michigan, Fall 2010

Conference Talks and Participation:

"Marvelous Model Risk Management", 2020 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Society of Actuaries, panel talk with Mandy Lee, Sebastian Polczynski, and Songchen Zhang, September 2, 2020

"Intersections of multiplicative translates of 3-adic Cantor sets", AMS Special Session on Fractals and Tilings, AMS Central Section Meeting, Michigan State University, March 14, 2014

"On the equivariant formal group law of the equivariant complex cobordism ring MU_G*", AMS Session on Knots, Topological Graphs, and Algebraic Topology, Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA, Baltimore, MD, January 18, 2014

"Symbolic dynamics of path sets", Student SIAM Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, February 9, 2013

"Chaos and the strange geometry of the universe", Humanities Day, Ridgeview Classical Schools, Fort Collins, CO, February 2, 2013

Project NExT Panel Co-Organizer, "Independent Study Courses", with Malena Espanol, Daniel Mosely, and Carmen Wright, MAA MathFest, Portland, OR, August 5-8, 2014

Project NExT Panel Co-Organizer, "The Nuts and Bolts of Undergraduate Research: How to Pick Projects, Recruit Students, and Make it Work", with Megan Heenehan, Marco Martinez, and Andrea Overbay, Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA, Baltimore, MD, January 14-18, 2014

Project NExT Participant, MAA MathFest, Hartford, CT, July 29-August 3, 2013

Invited Scientific Researcher, Workshop on Experimentation and Discovery in Number Theory, Fields Institute, Toronto, ON, September 22-26, 2009

Other Conferences Attended:

Actuaries Club of the Southwest, Austin, TX, November 7-8, 2019

Life and Annuity Symposium, Tampa, FL, May 20-21, 2019

Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA, Seattle, WA, January 6-9, 2016

Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA, San Antonio, TX, January 10-13, 2015

Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA, San Diego, CA, January 9-12, 2013

Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA, Boston, MA, January 4-7, 2012

Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA, New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2011