This is a list of talks that I can remember giving. I have the notes
for most of them buried somewhere.
Undergrad
- Hopf Galois structures for dihedral extensions. Summer 1998, informal
seminar, SUNY Albany
- Hopf Galois structures for S_n extensions. Summer 1998, informal
seminar, SUNY Albany
- Hopf Galois structures for non-abelian field extensions (poster
presentation). January 16, 1999, AMS Undergrad Poster session, San
Antonio joint meeting
- Crossing numbers of complete bipartite graphs. August 17, 1999,
SURF summer research seminar, Caltech
- Equivalent formulations of Smale's conjecture. October 20, 2000, SURF
summer research seminar, Caltech
- Hopf Galois structures. October 2000, Wales's class, Caltech
- Ramsey numbers. November 2000, Wales's class, Caltech
- Ordinary implies deRham. June 2001, Flach's class, Caltech
Grad
- The Koszul complex (part 2 of 3). September, 2001, Eisenbud's
class
- Resolutions of complex surface singularities. December 4, 2001,
Kirby's secret topology seminar, UCB
- A^1 homotopy. May 7, 2002, student algebraic geometry seminar,
UCB
- Boson-fermion correspondence. December 9, 2002, informal student
string theory seminar, UCB
- Eisenstein series. February 3, 2003, automorphic forms seminar,
UCB
- The circle method. March 10, 2003, automorphic forms seminar,
UCB
- Dieudonne modules and deRham cohomology. July 22, 2003, Mazur group,
UCB
- How to build a monster. September 6, 2003, Many Cheerful Facts,
UCB
- Positive definite binary quadratic forms. September 15, 2003,
integral quadratic forms seminar, UCB
- Upper bounds for sphere packings (after Cohn and Elkies).
November 10, 2003, integral quadratic forms seminar, UCB
- Arithmetic subgroups of SL_2 over a function field. December 4, 2003,
Bartholdi's class, UCB
- Rationality of zeta. February 6, 2004, zeta functions seminar,
UCB
- Rationality of zeta II. February 13, 2004, zeta functions seminar,
UCB
- Rational points on X_{split}(N). February 24, 2004, Mazur group,
UCB
- Bosonization on Riemann surfaces. March 1, 2004, informal student
string theory seminar, UCB
- Instanton sums and monodromy. March 17, 2004, AWS working group talk,
UT Austin
- Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology. April 9, 2004, zeta functions seminar,
UCB
- Variation of Hodge structure. April 29, 2004, Shimura varieties
seminar, UCB
- Variation of Hodge structure II. May 6, 2004, Shimura varieties
seminar, UCB
- Affine Lie algebras and automorphic forms. July 21, 2004, summer
unprepared ad hoc lecture series, UCB
- Monodromy and elliptic curves. August 5, 2004, Periods seminar,
UCB
- Cohomology of manifolds varying in a family. August 9, 2004, Periods
seminar, UCB
- Introduction to moonshine. October 1, 2004, Secret Russian seminar,
UCB
- Riemann surfaces and Galois theory. October 27, 2004, student
topology seminar, UCB
- Kac-Moody algebras for beginners. November 22, 2004, informal student
string theory seminar, UCB
- Relativistic quantum mechanics. January 27, 2005, non-axiomatic
quantum field theory seminar, UCB
- Langlands to geometric Langlands. February 28, 2005, Workshop on
geometric Langlands program, Talbot 2005 (North Conway, NH)
- Moonshine for Beginners. August 31, 2005, Many Cheerful Facts,
UCB
- Higher Torsion Invariants I. March 3, 2006, Workshop on automorphisms
of manifolds, Talbot 2006 (North Conway, NH)
- I don't understand conformal blocks. October 17, 2006, Student
representation theory seminar, UCB
- Spectral group schemes and oriented spectral elliptic curves.
November 30, 2006, Derived algebraic geometry and topology seminar,
UCB
- Monstrous Lie algebras and generalized moonshine. December 4, 2006,
Quantum algebra seminar, UC Davis
- Baby p-adic geometry I. February 23, 2007, Student number theory
seminar, UCB
- Baby p-adic geometry II. March 2, 2007, Student number theory
seminar, UCB
- Monstrous Lie algebras and generalized moonshine. April 9, 2007,
Representation theory, geometry and combinatorics semonar, UCB
- Monstrous Lie algebras and generalized moonshine. April 16, 2007,
Algebra seminar, Kansas State University
- Tamely ramified case II: nilpotent opers and Miura opers. April 17,
2007, Geometric Langlands seminar, UCB
- Borcherds products and genus zero functions. April 18, 2007, Number
theory seminar, UCB
Later
- Monstrous moonshine. July 17, 2007, Canada/USA Mathcamp (Waterville,
ME)
- Monstrous Lie algebras and generalized moonshine. October 2, 2007,
Everytopic seminar, Brandeis University
- Chiral algebras, Factorization algebras, and chiral modules. October
4, 2007, Chiral algebras seminar, Harvard
- Monstrous Lie algebras and generalized moonshine. October 5, 2007,
Infinite-dimensional algebra seminar, MIT
- The generalized moonshine conjecture. March 13, 2008, Number theory
seminar, MIT
- Monstrous moonshine. March 18, 2008, Talk for undergrads, MIT
- Construction of the functor Whitc -> FS. April 4, 2008,
Workshop on Affine Lie algebras and chiral structures, Talbot 2008
(Plymouth, MA)
- Monstrous moonshine. July 29, 2008, Canada/USA Mathcamp (Portland,
OR).
- Genus zero modular functions in generalized moonshine. February 13,
2009, Infinite-dimensional algebra seminar, MIT
- Generalized moonshine: an overview. March 11, 2009, Geometry seminar,
Boston University
- Construction of the exotic 2-compact group DI(4). April 23, 2009,
The Thursday Seminar, Harvard
- Singular commutative rings in a braided category. September 1, 2009,
ICMS Workshop on vertex algebras, Lie algebras, and automorphic forms,
Edinburgh
- Singular commutative rings in a braided category. September 25, 2009,
Infinite-dimensional algebra seminar, MIT
- Chiral algebras and logarithmic geometry. November 4, 2009,
Mathematical Physics Seminar, Boston University
- Genus zero functions in generalized moonshine. November 6, 2009,
Everytopic Seminar, Brandeis University
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