Research Talks
Invited seminar talks
Presentations of bordism categories, Junior Topology and Group Theory Seminar, University of Oxford, November 2024 Notes
Surgery presentations of bordism bicategories, Topology Seminar, University of Oxford, May 2025 Notes
Contributed talks
Presentations of bordism categories via surgery, Graduate student micro-talk at the Thematic Program in Field Theory and Topology, University of Notre Dame, June 2024 Notes
Expository talks
Topology Advanced Class, Oxford
Kontsevich's configuration space integrals and formality of the little n-disks operad, March 2024 Notes
A (pre)history of rational homotopy theory, January 2024 Notes
Bordisms and cospans, May 2023 Notes
Non-semisimple TQFTs and mapping class group representations, December 2022
2+1 TQFTs extending the renormalized Lyubashenko invariant, November 2022
Uniqueness of rational CFT with given algebra of open states, June 2022 Notes
K-theory from supersymmetric Euclidean field theories, February 2022 Notes
The differential cohomology hexagon, October 2021
An introduction to δ-rings, October 2021
Spanier–Whitehead duality for orbispectra, May 2021 Notes
Solid modules, February 2021 Notes
The Snaith splitting theorem, October 2020
Kan Seminar, MIT
$\pi_*(MU)$ and Quillen's Theorem, November 2019
Brown's representability theorem, October 2019
Steenrod's realization problem and the unoriented cobordism ring, September 2019
Outreach talks
Introduction to Knot Theory, Guest lecture at PROMYS Europe, 2022