Past Talks

• Counting Homogeneous Einstein Metrics [slides]
      Santa Clara University Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium, November 11, 2025.
      San Francisco State University Algebra, Geometry, and Combinatorics Seminar, October 8, 2025.
      UC Berkeley Seminar on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, September 30, 2025.
• Grassmann and Flag Varieties in Linear Algebra, Optimization, and Statistics: An Algebraic Perspective [slides]
      New Frontiers of Geometry and Combinatorics in Machine Learning at SIAM AG, July 10, 2025.
• Squared Linear Models
      MPI MiS Seminar on Nonlinear Algebra, June 19, 2025
• Solving Polynomial Equations
      Problem Solving Workshop: Computational Geometric Analysis, June 4, 2025
• Likelihood Geometry of the Squared Grassmannian
      Session on Advances in Applied Algebra and Algebraic Statistics at the AWM Resarch Symposium, May 16, 2025
      Algebraic Statistics 2025, March 27, 2025 [slides]
      AMS Special Session on Algebraic Statistics in Our Changing World at JMM, January 8, 2025 [slides]
      UC Berkeley Combinatorics Seminar, October 23, 2024
      Workshop for Women in Algebraic Statistics at St John’s College, University of Oxford, July 15, 2024
• Likelihood Geometry of Determinantal Point Processes
      University of Wisconsin Applied Algebra Seminar, May 15, 2025
• Polyhedral Geometry and Gröbner Bases
      Tropical Geometry Reading Group, February 11, 2025
• The Squared Grassmannian [slides]
      University of Washington Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar, January 15, 2025
• What is Algebraic Statistics?
      Bay Area Discrete Math Day, UC Berkeley, December 7, 2024
• Tensors and Phylogenetics
      Tensors Reading Group, UC Berkeley, November 19, 2024
• Representation Theory for Spaces of Tensors
      Tensors Reading Group, UC Berkeley, October 22, 2024
• Optimization over Two Embeddings of the Grassmannian [slides]
      Codex Seminar, July 2, 2024
• Likelihood Geometry of Determinantal Point Processes [slides]
      Algebra-Geometry-Combinatorics Afternoon at San Francisco State University, November 28, 2023
• Long Increasing Subsequences [slides]
      Harvey Mudd Presentation Days, May 2023
• A New Basis for k-Local Class Functions on the Symmetric Group [slides]
      Joint Math Meetings, January 2023