Talks

2022

• February 21^st Virtual, GAP Days Winter 2022:
  Testing the package distribution. (50 mins)

2021

• December 11^th RWTH Aachen, Nikolaus Conference 2021:
  Perfect refiners for permutation group backtracking algorithms. (20 mins)
• February 15^th Virtual, GAP Days “Spring” 2021:
  Introduction to GitHub Actions. (20 mins, slides)

2019

• December 7^th RWTH Aachen, Nikolaus Conference 2019:
  Exploring graph backtracking. (20 mins)
• November 27^th Volkswagen Stiftung, Forum "Experiment!" 2019:
  How we search for symmetry by breaking it. (15 mins, with Rebecca Waldecker; slides)
• November 19^th University of Halle, Halle-Jena seminar:
  Searching in the symmetric group with directed graphs. (1 hour)
• August 19^th PfalzAkademie, GAP-Singular meeting and school:
  Searching in permutation groups with directed graphs. (25 mins)
• May 28^th University of Halle, Group theory seminar:
  Structures for backtrack search in groups. (1 hour)

2018

• December 8^th RWTH Aachen, Nikolaus Conference 2018:
  Computing generating sets for direct products of finite semigroups. (20 mins)
• November 27^th University of Halle, Halle-Jena seminar:
  Computing maximal subsemigroups of finite semigroups. (50 mins)
• November 22^nd RWTH Aachen, GAP in Algebraic Research:
  Computing with Semigroups in GAP. (~3 hours)
• October 16^th University of Halle, Group theory seminar:
  A taste of my PhD thesis. (25 mins)
• March 14^th University of St Andrews, Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar:
  Computing direct products of semigroups. (20 mins)
• February 21^st University of York, York Semigroup:
  Computing direct products of semigroups. (1 hour, slides)

2017

• December 4^th University of St Andrews, Pure Postgraduate Seminar:
  Computing direct products of semigroups. (1 hour)
• August University of Kent, Young Researchers in Mathematics:
  Semigroups of order-preserving transformations. (20 mins, slides)
• July 28^th FCUL Lisbon, Symmetry in Finite and Infinite Structures, satellite workshop to
  All Kinds of Mathematics Remind Me Of You: conference for the 70th anniversary of P. J. Cameron:
  Maximal subsemigroups of finite semigroups. (10 mins, slides)
• June ^7th The Burn (Edzell), EMS Postgraduate Students Meeting 2017:
  An introduction to transformation semigroups. (15 mins)
• April 26^th University of St Andrews, Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar:
  Maximal subsemigroups via independent sets. (15 mins, slides)
• March 6^th University of St Andrews, Pure Postgraduate Seminar:
  The maximal subsemigroups of some special monoids. (1 hour)
• January 21^st The Burn (Edzell), Postgraduate Intradisciplinary Maths Symposium 2017:
  The mathematics of Herbert Wilf. (15 mins)
• January 13^th University of St Andrews, School Research Day:
  The Semigroups Package. (15 mins, slides)

2016

• October 21^st ICMS, 2^nd CoDiMa Training School:
  Semigroups in GAP: an introduction and tutorial. (1½ hours, slides)
• May 31^st The Burn (Edzell), EMS Postgraduate Students Meeting 2016:
  Semigroups and maximal cliques. (15 mins)
• March 18^th University of St Andrews, The 23^rd NBSAN Meeting:
  Computing maximal subsemigroups of finite semigroups. (30 mins)
• February 10^th University of St Andrews, Pure Postgraduate Seminar:
  Computing maximal subsemigroups: the conclusion. (1 hour, slides)
• January 26^th The Burn (Edzell), Postgraduate Intradisciplinary Maths Symposium 2016:
  Some treats from combinatorics. (15 mins)
  Along with Fiona MacFarlane, I won the award for best talk of PIMS 2016.

2015

• December 3^rd University of St Andrews, CIRCA Seminar:
  Computing maximal subsemigroups of finite semigroups. (20 mins, slides)
• November 27^th University of St Andrews, Pure Postgraduate Seminar:
  How does the Semigroups package work? (1 hour)
• November 12^th University of Cambridge, Research in the UK afternoon:
  Research at the University of St Andrews. (5 mins)
  Computational algebra (& semigroup theory). (15 mins, slides)
• August 18^th University of Oxford, Young Researchers in Mathematics:
  Being clever with semigroup calculations. (20 mins, slides)
• June 2^nd The Burn (Edzell), EMS Postgraduate Students Meeting 2015:
  Computing with finite semigroups. (15 mins, slides)
• April 14^th Queen Mary University of London, Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference 2015:
  Calculating an element of minimal rank in a finite transformation semigroup. (25 mins, slides)
• March 31^st University of St Andrews, Pure Postgraduate Seminar:
  Transformation semigroups & minimal ideals. (1 hour, slides)
• March 18^th RWTH Aachen (Germany), 2^nd GAP Days Meeting:
  How to compute the maximal subsemigroups of a finite semigroup in GAP. (20 mins, slides)
• January 27^th The Burn (Edzell), Postgraduate Intradisciplinary Maths Symposium 2015:
  The maximal cliques of a graph. (10 mins)

2014

• November 7^th University of St Andrews, Pure Postgraduate Seminar:
  Maximal subsemigroups of finite semigroups. (1 hour, slides)