Talks

Below is a list of talks I've given, as well as the places I've given them. 

I really enjoy preparing for and giving talks, so please do get in touch if my work sounds interesting.

I keep the notes for my talks, so feel free to email me if you want to see them. I tend to prefer giving blackboard talks, so my notes are largely written so that I can deliver the talk (rather than to be read by others). This means they're often written in lots of shorthand, which is why they're not all uploaded.

Invited

• June 2024: Galois invariants of obstruction sets - New Zealand Number Theory Workshop at the University of Canterbury. Based on this preprint. 

• November 2023: The Valuative Section Conjecture and Étale Homotopy - New Zealand Number Theory Workshop at the University of Auckland. Based on this preprint.

• June 2023: The Valuative Section Conjecture and Étale Homotopy - London Number Theory Seminar. Based on this preprint.

• February 2023: An arithmetic Yau-Zaslow formula - MAGIC Seminar, Imperial College, London. Based on this preprint.

• February 2023: An arithmetic Yau-Zaslow formula - Duke University Algebraic Geometry Seminar. Based on this preprint.

• June 2022: Étale fundamental groups, section equivalence and "ét equivalence" - Linfoot Number Theory Seminar, Bristol. Based on a slightly dormant project that may get resurrected if I can find an application.

Expository

The below talks are almost all expository, and I take very little, if any, credit for the mathematical content of any of them: most of these talks are on results that are related to my research, but the conclusion might not be on original research of mine.

• March 2023: The section conjecture, valuations and graphs - London Junior Number Theory Seminar. This was sort of a "low tech" version of the "Valuative Section Conjecture" talks, where I avoided all homotopy theory, so the idea is the same, but the end results aren't anything new.

• December 2022: Arithmetic Enumerative Geometry and the Yau-Zaslow formula: The Advent of Rational Points. This was based on my research, though the talk was only 30 minutes so only results were stated.

• December 2022: An overview of "The Uplifting Theorem" - London Number Theory Study Group on "Smooth Profinite Groups"

• August 2022: The Massey Vanishing Conjecture - YRANT IV, Glasgow

• June 2022: The Étale Fundamental Group and the Section Conjecture - ECRM, London (NB: The contents of this talk was the first half of the talk given at the Linfoot seminar)

• February 2022: An introduction to birational anabelian Geometry - London Junior Number Theory Seminar

• December 2021: Reciprocity laws in global fields in characteristic p - Study group on global fields in characteristic p.

• October 2020/1: An introduction to schemes - Imperial Junior Geometry Seminar (Both years)

• August 2021: The p-adic section conjecture and valuations - YRANT III

• June 2021: The topology of Berkovich spaces - London Study Group on Non-Archimedean Geometry

• June 2021: Homotopy fixed points and the section conjecture - London Junior Number Theory Seminar

• November 2020: Curve counting using the ring of varieties - KCL/UCL Junior Geometry Seminar

• September - November 2020: 5 separate talks for the étale homotopy study group.

• June 2020: The descent obstruction to rational points - London Junior Number Theory Seminar