Talks and Outreach

Recent and Upcoming Talks

  • Departmental Seminar, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (TBA)
  • Departmental Seminar, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA (TBA)
  • Departmental Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, MI (TBA)
  • AMS Fall Sectional Meeting, Special Session 'Integrability and Randomness', Tulane University, New Orleans, GA (Scheduled: 10/2025)
  • WaDIB: Wave Dynamics, Integrability, and Beyond, Santa Margherita di Pula, Sardinia, Italy (05/2025)
  • Universality, Nonlinearity, and Integrability: In Honor of Percy Deift's 80th Birthday, KIAS, Seoul, Korea (05/2025)
  • Conference on 'Dispersive Integrable Equations: Pathfinders in Infinite-Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems', CIRM, Luminy, France (04/2025)
  • IMACS Nonlinear Wave Conference, Special Session 'Advances in Integrable Systems and Inverse Scattering' Athens, GA (03/2025)
  • AMS Spring Sectional Meeting, Special Session 'Analysis of Nonlinear Wave Models', University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (03/2025)
  • AMS Spring Sectional Meeting, Special Session 'Recent Advances in the Analysis of Integrable Systems', University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (03/2025)
  • Departmental Seminar, SUNY University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (10/2024)
  • Departmental Seminar, University Washington, Seattle, WA (10/2024)
  • Seminar, 'Emergent phenomena in Nonlinear Dispersive Waves' Programme of Isaac Newton Institute, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK (08/2024)
  • SIAM Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures Conference 2024, Special Session 'Recent Developments in Dispersive Partial Differential Equations', Baltimore, MD (06/2024)

Outreach Activities

Member of the Organizing Committee, UC Math Bowl Competition (since Fall 2019)

Math Bowl is a high school/junior high school math contest held annually in March at the University of Cincinnati for the past 40 years. It is a popular event in Greater Cincinnati, offered in 3 levels of math curriculum, and it is attended by a large and diverse group of students — about 80 teams of 2–5 students from 27 schools in 2019, for example.

My role involves coming up with problems, evaluating the work submitted by the teams, and showing up on the day of competition to interact with the students.

Curriculum Developer and Instructor, CHANCE Program, UIC (2014, 2015, 2016)

CHANCE is a program at the University of Illinois at Chicago that supports underrepresented and under-resourced students by fostering meaningful academic engagement and promoting student success. It plays a key role in UIC’s efforts to recruit, support, and retain these students through partnerships with Chicago Public Schools, City Colleges of Chicago, community organizations, and regional school districts. By offering mentoring, academic support, and access to college and career resources, CHANCE helps students navigate the path to higher education and graduation.

I have designed their mathematics curriculum and taught at their summer camps.