Presentations given

At conferences:

• A computational search for stabilizers of Teichmüller geodesics
  at “Conformal Dynamics, Hyperbolic Geometry, and Continued Fractions”
  Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, Luminy, France, 13 June 2005
• Teichmüller geodesics and Veech groups
  at the International Workshop on Teichmüller Theory and Moduli Problems
  Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India, 7 January 2006
  (an expanded set of notes from this talk, to appear in the conference proceedings, is available here)
• Applications of Delaunay triangulations to Teichmüller theory
  Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium,
  Rutgers University, Newark, 8 May 2008
  Here is my submission to the proceedings of this conference.
  (slides from this talk)
• Applications of Delaunay triangulations to Teichmüller theory
  Dynamique dans l'Espace de Teichmüller,
  Station Biologique, Roscoff, France, 2 June 2008
  (slides from this talk, essentially an expanded version from ABC)
• Delaunay triangulations of flat surfaces
  Graduate Conference in Algebra and Topology,
  Binghamton University, Binghamton, 28 November 2008

At Cornell:

• The plants go marching n by n: garden variety affine and projective planes
  Olivetti Club, 24 February 2004
  
• Enlivening the classroom: reducing teachers’ and students’ stress with humor
  Teaching Seminar, 2 February 2005
  
• Here a ball, there a ball, everywhere a unit ball: Royden’s theorem on isometries of Teichmüller space
  Olivetti Club, 29 March 2005
  
• Project calculus: incorporating long-term projects in your calculus classroom (with Jonathan Needleman)
  Teaching Seminar, 27 April 2005
  
• Translation with a capital T, and that rhymes with B, and that stands for billiards!
  Olivetti Club, 20 September 2005
  
• Veech groups of flat surfaces
  Dynamical Systems Seminar, 5 December 2005
  
• Pseudo-Anosov maps of a surface-ally docious (If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious)
  Olivetti Club, 4 April 2006
  
• Klein’s quartic, ’tis of thee, sweet curve of genus 3, of thee I sing
  Olivetti Club, 6 November 2007
  
• Visualizing Veech groups
  Dynamical Systems Seminar, 30 November 2007
  
• The cocycle of life
  Olivetti Club, 22 April 2008
  
• Applications of Delaunay triangulations to flat surfaces
  Dynamical Systems Seminar, 25 April 2008
• Preparing teaching and research statements
  Cornell Teaching Seminar, 17 September 2008
• Some variational and asymptotic methods in the study of complex structures
  Cornell Lie Groups Seminar, 24 October 2008

Elsewhere:

• All I really need to know I learned from polygons
  St. Olaf College Mathematics Department Colloquium, 21 March 2006
• Delaunay triangulations and bicuspid surfaces (following work of Veech)
  Teichmüller Theory Seminar, Université de Provence, 2 February 2007
  
• Delaunay triangulations of flat surfaces
  Section de Mathématiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 20 March 2007
  

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