Talks
Talks, Posters, and Seminar Presentations
This page collects selected conference talks, posters, seminar talks, and workshops. The talks are centered around algebraic topology, group theory, Lie algebras associated to groups, formality properties, resonance varieties, Chen ranks, configuration spaces, and related topics.
Featured Topic Areas
Formality Properties
Talks on 1-formality, graded-formality, filtered-formality, rational homotopy theory, Malcev Lie algebras, and their applications to finitely generated groups.
Resonance and Chen Ranks
Presentations on resonance varieties, Chen ranks, Alexander invariants, cohomology jumping loci, and resonance–Chen rank formulas.
Braid-Like Groups
Talks involving pure braid groups, welded braid groups, McCool groups, configuration spaces, and algebraic invariants of braid-type groups.
Conference Talks
The 8th International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications (ICMAA 2019)
University of Nevada, Reno, NV, July 15–18, 2019
Title: Matrix methods in algebraic topology
AMS 2017 Fall Western Sectional Meeting
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, University of California, Riverside, November 4–5, 2017
Title: Formality properties: generalizations and applications
AMS 2016 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Special Session on Topology and Combinatorics of Arrangements in honor of Mike Falk, Stony Brook University, March 19–20, 2016
Title: Towards a new resonance–Chen ranks formula: the case of welded braids
Combinatorial Constructions in Topology
University of Regina, Canada, August 17–21, 2015
Title: Resonance varieties and Chen ranks of braid-like groups
Computational Geometric Topology in Arrangement Theory
ICERM, Brown University, July 6–10, 2015
Title: Formality properties, resonance varieties, and Chen ranks
Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures and International Conference 2015
Woods Hole, MA, April 29–May 4, 2015
Title: Resonance varieties, Hilbert series and Chen ranks
AMS 2015 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Special Session on Algebraic Structures Motivated by and Applied to Knot Theory, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., March 7–8, 2015
Title: Cohomology jump loci of configuration spaces
Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures and International Conference 2014
Woods Hole, MA, May 1–6, 2014
Title: Lie algebras of finitely generated groups and their formality properties
Conference Posters
Conference for Advancing Evidence-Based Learning
CATLR, April 30, 2024
Poster title: Undergraduate and Graduate Mathematics Education in the Era of AI
MathWorks Day at Northeastern University
March 1, 2023
Poster title: Machine Learning in Applied Math Curriculum using MATLAB
Poster download
Computational Geometric Topology in Arrangement Theory
ICERM, Brown University, July 6–10, 2015
Poster title: Formality properties of finitely generated groups
Poster download
Seminar Talks
The Algebra Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Temple University
Philadelphia, October 22, 2018
Title: Moduli spaces in rational homotopy theory
Department of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium
University of Nevada, Reno, October 20, 2016
Title: Formality properties in topology and group theory
PhD Thesis Defense
Northeastern University, April 21, 2016
Title: Resonance varieties, Chen ranks and formality properties of finitely generated groups
Graduate Student Seminar
Northeastern University, Spring 2016
Title: Algebraic and geometric invariants of finitely generated groups
Geometry, Algebra, Singularities, Combinatorics Seminar
Northeastern University, Boston, November 9, 2015
Title: Algebraic invariants of pure braid-like groups
Graduate Student Seminar
Northeastern University, Spring 2015
Title: Some functors from topological spaces to Lie algebras and varieties
Graduate Student Seminar
Northeastern University, Fall 2013
Title: The computation of the holonomy Lie algebra of a discrete group
Graduate Student Seminar
Northeastern University, Spring 2013
Title: A new application of Toda brackets
Algebraic Topology Seminar
Nankai University, Fall 2012
Title: (Co)homology jump loci and algebraic invariants
Graduate Student Seminar
Northeastern University, Spring 2012
Title: Massey Products and Its Applications
Conferences and Workshops Attended
The following list records selected conferences, workshops, summer schools, and meetings attended.
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- West Coast Algebraic Topology Summer School: Homotopy Theory of Moduli Spaces, 2010
- The 9th Annual Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference, 2011
- 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings
- 2012 Texas Geometry and Topology Conference
- The 38th International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, 2013
- Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures and International Conference, 2014
- AMS 2015 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Algebraic Structures Motivated by and Applied to Knot Theory
- Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures and International Conference, 2015
- Computational Geometric Topology in Arrangement Theory, ICERM, 2015
- Combinatorial Constructions in Topology, 2015
- AMS 2016 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Topology and Combinatorics of Arrangements
- Second Annual Graduate Student Conference in Algebra, Geometry, and Topology, 2016
- 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings
- Homotopy Theory: Tools and Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017
- GAP XV: Quantization, Pennsylvania State University, 2017
- 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings
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