Talks and Presentations
A collection of talks that I gave at various conferences and seminars. I have included slides when possible: if there are no slides for a talk, then it was a board talk. Details of the conference/seminar are also linked.
The OGMC is a student-run conference which in which Ontario-based mathematics students present about their various research projects. This talk covered the second major research project of my PhD thesis. It provides a brief introduction to the Fourier algebra \(A(G)\) of a locally compact group \(G\), and examines a specific example of the \(p\)-adic group \(G = \mathbb{Q}_p^2 \rtimes \mathbb{O}_p^*\).
I gave this talk at Victoria University of Wellington, my undergraduate/Masters university. I cover the non-amenability of the central Fourier algebra of the compact \(p\)-adic motion group \(\mathbb{O}_p \rtimes \mathbb{O}^∗_p\), which was the first research project of my PhD program at Waterloo.
My first conference talk, where I presented the work from the first research project of my PhD. This work showed the non-amenability of the central Fourier algebra of the compact \(p\)-adic motion group \(\mathbb{O}_p \rtimes \mathbb{O}^∗_p\). This would then go on to form a portion of my PhD thesis, though in a more general form using hypergroups.
This was a talk for the Pure Math Graduate Student Colloquium, where talks tend to be light-hearted and casual. I chose to give a talk about one of my favourite video games Braid, a puzzle-platformer with unique time mechanics. The talk follows a paper of Linus Hamilton, who shows that the question of if a given Braid level is beatable is fundamentally undecidable.
My first in-person talk at the University of Waterloo as a PhD student. It had taken some time to organise, as various covid restrictions delayed my arrival to Waterloo. The talk focused on the work in my Master’s thesis, providing a brief overview.