This is a list of some seminar or conference talks that I gave. At the bottom is a small selection of talk slides.
List of talks
53. “Title TBC.” Conference website, July 21-25, 2025. ICMS workshop: Spaces of Tensor Categories, Edinburgh’.
52. “Induced functors between Drinfeld centers of tensor categories,” May 14–16, 2025. LMS South West and South Wales Regional Meeting and Workshop, University of Cardif.
51. “Braided Frobenius monoidal functors on Drinfeld centers,” November 20, 2024. Topology Seminar, University of Zurich.
50. “Frobenius monoidal functors on Drinfeld centers.” Seminar website, slides, October 30, 2024. Geometry, Topology, and Physics (GTP) Seminar series, NYU Abu Dhabi, Centre for Quantum and Topological Systems (online).
49. “Frobenius monoidal functors between Drinfeld centers,” September 25, 2024. Algebra Seminar, University of Aberdeen.
48. “Interpolation categories a la Deligne and modular representation theory,” September 13, 2024. Seminar SPACE Tours, Université de Tours.
47. “Reflective centers of module categories.” Slides, February 26, 2024. Algebra Seminar, Newcastle University.
46. “Induced functors on Drinfeld centers via monoidal adjunctions.” Seminar series website, February 19, 2024. Quantum Groups Seminar (online seminar).
45. “Induced functors on Drinfeld centers via monoidal adjunctions.” Slides and Recording, January 9, 2024. IPAM Workshop: Symmetric Tensor Categories and Representation Theory.
44. “Induced functors on Drinfeld centers via monoidal adjunctions.” Seminar series website, November 23, 2023. Higher Structures QFT (online seminar).
43. “Braided Hopf crossed modules and groupoids of algebras.” Conference website, July 13, 2023. Hopf Algebroids and Noncommutative Geometry, Queen Mary University of London.
42. “Reflective centers of module categories.” Conference website, July 6, 2023. Hopf Days in Brussels 2023, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
41. “Non-semisimple modular categories type Super A and the Links–Gould invariant.” slides, April 11, 2023. Quantum Algebra Seminar, Queen Mary University of London.
40. “Indecomposable objects in Khovanov–Sazdanovic cobordism categories and rings of modular symmetric functions.” slides, November 22, 2022. Pure Maths Seminar, University of East Anglia.
39. “Indecomposable objects in Khovanov–Sazdanovic cobordism categories and rings of modular symmetric functions.” Seminar series website, October 20, 2022. London Algebra Collquium, Queen Mary University.
38. “Relative Drinfeld centers and non-semisimple modular tensor categories.” Seminar series website, slides, November 8, 2022. Universal Quantum Symmetries Lectures UQSL (online seminar).
37. “Non-semisimple modular tensor categories and relative centers.” Seminar series website, April 4, 2022. Seminar Geometric Methods in Mathematics, University of Dresden.
36. “Indecomposable objects in Khovanov–Sazdanovic cobordism categories and rings of modular symmetric functions,” November 30, 2021. Algebra Seminar, University of Aberdeen.
35. “Categorification of cyclotomic rings.” Video, slides, August 10, 2021. AIM research community learning seminar: -DG theory (online).
34. “Non-semisimple modular tensor categories and relative centers,” April 13, 2021. Algebra Seminar, Uppsala University (online).
33. “Non-semisimple modular tensor categories and relative centers,” March 23, 2021. Algebra Seminar, University of Leeds (online).
32. “Braided Commutative Algebras over Quantized Enveloping Algebras,” February 18, 2020. Algebra Seminar, University of Manchester.
31. “A category interpolating Yetter–Drinfeld modules over symmetric groups.” Slides, November 22, 2019. Algebra Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
30. “2-representations of dg categories,” November 12, 2019. Algebra Seminar, University of Oregon.
29. “Braided Commutative Algebras over Quantized Enveloping Algebras.” Website, abstract, November 9–11, 2019. AMS Fall Western Sectional Meeting, Riverside, California. Special session: Geometry and Representation Theory of Quantum Algebras and Related Topics.
28. “Categorical representation theory in the pretriangulated setup.” Slides, November 6, 2019. Algebra Seminar, Rutgers University.
27. “The Monoidal Center of Deligne’s Interpolation Category .” Conference website, July 8–12, 2019. Representations of monoidal categories and 2-categories, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK’.
26. “Knot theory and quantum groups or ‘doing algebra by drawing pictures’ (student audience talk).” Seminar website, March 15, 2019. Rutgers Undergraduate Mathematics Association (RUMA) seminar, Rutgers University.
25. “Hopfological algebra and categorifications of cyclotomic rings,” March 15, 2019. Algebra and Cryptography Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center.
24. “An Interpolation Approach to Untwisted Dijkgraaf–Witten Theory.” Website, abstract, January 13–19, 2019. AMS Joint Mathematics Meeting, Baltimore. Special session: Hopf Algebras and Tensor Categories.
23. “ Categorification of cyclotomic rings at non-prime roots of unit.” Website, abstract, January 13–19, 2019. AMS Joint Mathematics Meeting, Baltimore. Special Session: Algebraic Structures Motivated by Knot Theory.
22. “Shifted Non-commutative symmetric functions.” Conference website, June 25–30, 2018. Retakhfest: Non-commutative structures, cluster algebras and applications, a conference in honor of V. Retakh, University of Angers, France.
21. “A Categorification of Cyclotomic Integers at Non-Prime Orders,” May 10, 2018. Categorification Seminar, University of Southern California.
20. “Categorification of cyclotomic rings at non-prime roots of unity.” Website, abstract, April 21–22, 2018. AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. Special session: Hopf Algebras, Tensor Categories, and Homological Algebra.
19. “A Categorification of Cyclotomic Integers at Non-Prime Orders,” April 17, 2018. Algebra Seminar, University of Oregon.
18. “The Koszul property for algebras of quasi-Plücker coordinates.” Website, abstract, slides, April 14–15, 2018. AMS Spring Western Sectional Meeting Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. Special session: Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Related Topics.
17. “A smaller monoidal center for quantum group representations.” Conference website, March 17–19, 2018. Recent developments in noncommutative algebra and related areas, University of Washington, Seattle.
16. “2-Representation Theory for Categorified Quantum Groups at Prime Roots of Unity.” Website, abstract, October 26–27, 2017. AMS Fall Western Sectional Meeting, Riverside, California. Special session: Non-Commutative Birational Geometry, Cluster Structures and Canonical Bases.
15. “Categorical Modules over the Relative Monoidal Center,” April 11, 2017. Quantum Algebra Seminar, Queen Mary University London.
14. “Cell 2-Representations for -DG 2-categories,” December 06, 2016. Geometry, Symmetry and Physics Seminar, Yale University.
13. “2-Representation Theory of -DG 2-Categories.” Website, abstract, October 28–30, 2016. AMS Fall Central Sectional Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Special session: Quantum Field Theories and Geometric Representation Theory.
12. “Braided Hopf Algebras and Construction of Quantum Groups as Braided Doubles,” February 18, 2016. Algebra Seminar, University of Oxford.
11. “A categorical action for rational Cherednik algebras.” Website, abstract, September 21–25, 2015. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Mathematikervereinigung, Universität Hamburg. Section: Algebra und Zahlentheorie.
10. “Braided Drinfeld and Heisenberg doubles and their interaction,” April 10, 2015. Séminaire Caen Cergy Clermont Paris - Théorie des Représentations, Universite Paris Diderot (Paris 7).
9. “What is a topological quantum field theory? (general audience talk),” February 6, 2015. Graduate Seminar, St Peter’s College, Oxford.
8. “Braided Drinfeld and Heisenberg Doubles and TQFTs with Defects,” January 20, 2015. Algebra Seminar, University of Edinburgh.
7. “Drinfeld and Hopf Centers and Applications.” Abstract, January 16, 2015. University of Copenhagen.
6. “Drinfeld Doubles associated to Rational Cherednik Algebras,” January 06, 2015. Algebra and Mathematical Physics Seminar, Universität Hamburg.
5. “Lusztig’s Geometric Construction of the Canonical Basis (summer school talk).” Conference website, June 17–26, 2014. Summer School: Quiver Hecke Algebras and conference: Geometric Representation Theory. European Network in Representation Theory, Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese.
4. “Pointed Hopf Algebras with triangular decomposition,” December 5, 2013. Representation Theory Seminar, University of Oxford.
3. “Knots in Mathematics (general audience talk),” November 18, 2013. Gradfest, St Peter’s College Oxford.
2. “Braided Reconstruction and Quantum Group Constructions,” June 17–20, 2013. Young Researchers in Mathematics 2013, University of Edinburgh.
1. “-Deformation and Braided Monoidal Categories.” Conference website, April 16–19, 2013. Deformation Week, University of Oxford.
List of poster presentations
4. “Non-semisimple modular categories of type Super A and the Links–Gould invariant.” Conference website, June 26–30, 2023. OAS Follow on: Operator Algebras: Subfactors and Applications, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge.
3. “Constructing Non-semisimple modular categories.” Conference website, abstract, April 4–9, 2021. British Mathematical Colloquium (online).
2. “Cell 2-representations and categorification at prime roots of unity.” Conference website, July 9–13, 2018. Categorification and Higher Representation Theory. Institute Mittag-Lefler, Sweden.
1. “Categorifying cyclotomic rings of integers.” Conference website, April 27–28, 2018. Mid-Atlantic Algebra, Geometry, and Combinatorics (MAAGC) Workshop, Philadelphia.
Talk slides
“Frobenius monoidal functors.”
“Reflective centers of module categories.”
“Relative Drinfeld centers and non-semisimple modular tensor categories.”
“Categorification of cyclotomic rings.”
“Interpolation Categories, Centers and LinkInvariants.”
“2-Representation Theory for Categorified Quantum Groups at Prime Roots of Unity.”
“The Koszul property for algebras of quasi-Plücker coordinates.”