Slides from Talks

Mathematics Talks

 

"The moduli space of rational maps of degree d."
Given at the Graduate Student Seminar at Brown a long time ago.

 

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"Benford's Law: Tables of logarithms, tax cheats, and the leading digit phenomenon."
Given at the USC Women in Mathematics seminar, April 2008.

 

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AWM 40 Years and Counting Number Theory Session

 

The probability that a curve over a finite field is smooth.
Melaine Matchett Wood, AIM & University of Wisconsin

 

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Descent on elliptic surfaces and transcendental Brauer elements.
Bianca Viray, Brown University

 

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Computations with Coleman integrals.
Jennifer Balakrishnan, Harvard University

 

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Constructing genus 2 curves for cryptography.
Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research

 

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Classification and Symmetries of a Family of Continued Fractions With Bounded Period Length.
Renate Scheidler, University of Calgary

 

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Ramanujan bigraphs associated with $SU(3)$ over a $p$-adic field.
Cristina Ballantine, College of the Holy Cross

 

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L-functions and periods.
Brooke Feigon, City College of New York

 

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From $p$-adic representations of the Galois group of $Q_p$ to sheaves on flag varieties.
Marie-France Vigneras, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu

 

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Education and Outreach Talks

 

"Habits of Mind: An organizing principle for mathematics curriculum."
Given various places, influenced heavily by my work at EDC prior to graduate school.

 

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"Finding Beauty in Mathematics."
Given at SUPER-M workshops in 2009 and 2010.

 

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"Mathematics: Some Perspective."
Given at "Math Power for Girls" at Sacred Hearts Academy, February 2011.

 

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"De-Terrorizing Testing."
Given by my graduate student Ali Lau at "Math Power for Girls" at Sacred Hearts Academy, February 2011.

 

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"Euler's Elegant Equation."
Keynote from the Hawaii Council of Teachers of Mathematics meeting, Spring 2011.

 

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