Counting Points in Polytopes
A talk I gave at the University of Michigan math club about Pick's theorem and Ehrhart polynomials. For some reason the pdf displays in black-and-white when I open it with firefox, but there should be colors
Symbolic Powers in Rings of Postivive Characteristic
This is a talk I gave at UW Madison about my work with Janet Page and Kevin Tucker on the Diagonal F-regularity of certain Hibi rings. I experimented with using "guided notes" for this talk, like I sometimes do in my classes.
Two lemmas on Matlis Duality
A short note on Matlis duality that I made mostly for my own reference. I'm definitely not the first person to prove these results, but I'm not sure where else to find them explicitly stated and proven.
Subadditivity formulas for test ideals
These are slides from a preliminary report I gave at the special session on commutative algebra at the AMS Western Sectional. The conference took place at Pullman, WA on April 22-23, 2017.
Birational classification (for a non-mathematical audience)
I spoke at the
Leonardo museum in March, 2017 as part of their
Math Medley event. The purpose of this 15-minute talk was to help introduce a non-mathematical audience to pure math research by discussing one of the big open problems in algebraic geometry. In particular, I tried to convey that lots of math research is going on to this day. I also tried to demonstrate that, though it may look complicated and esoteric, modern math research is still trying to answer some basic and very natural questions.
Singularities in characteristic p
This was a talk given at the
student algebraic geometry seminar in 2016. In these notes, I briefly define the log canonical threshold, and then describe an analogue in characterstic p, the F-pure threshold. Then I mention other ways to measure singularities in positive characteristic and their relationships with the characteristic-0 picture, both known and conjectured. I based this talk on several surveys in the literature.
An introduction to D-modules
An introduction to the Weyl algebra and modules over it. This talk was given at Utah's BIKES (student commutative algebra) seminar, February 2016.
A history of commutative algebra
I gave a talk on the history of commutative algebra, tracing it back to the study of diophantine equations and Fermat's last theorem. Along the way, we talk about Kummer's theory of ideal numbers. This talk was aimed at a general audience of graduate students (in pure and applied math) at Utah's GSAC colloquium.
Marden's Theorem
I gave a talk on Marden's theorem in January 2014. The following are presentation slides and a python script for drawing triangles and their steiner inellipses using the proof of the theorem.