Talks

This is a list of the talks I've given; notes, where existing, are linked.

2024

• TBA
  ALPE, Toulouse
• Nonsmooth Calabi-Yau algebras
  Algebraic Geometry seminar, Glasgow
• Global Koszul duality
  MAGIC seminar, Imperial College London
• Global Koszul duality (video)
  New Directions in Group Theory and Triangulated Categories, online
• Nonsmooth Calabi-Yau algebras
  CLAN, Glasgow

2023

• Geometric Class Field Theory (Notes)
  CFT Study Group, Lancaster
• Curved coalgebras (Notes)
  Coalgebra seminar, Lancaster
• Deformation theory and Koszul duality
  GAPT Seminar, Cardiff
• Singularity categories via the derived quotient (Notes)
  FD Seminar, online
• Global Koszul duality
  Algebra seminar, Prague
• Algebraic Geometry and Singularities: How to fold up space (Slides)
  Science Week 2023, Lancaster
• Algebraic Geometry and Singularities: How to fold up space (Slides)
  FST Forum, Lancaster
• Coalgebras, deformation theory, and Koszul duality
  Pure seminar, Lancaster

2022

• Global Koszul duality
  Homological Algebra Symposium, Aarhus
• Global Koszul duality (Notes)
  Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Glasgow
• Global Koszul duality
  ARTIN 60, Nottingham
• Global Koszul duality (Notes)
  Transpennine Topology Triangle 116, online

2021

• Topological Hochschild cohomology for schemes (Notes)
  TopFlavours 2021, online
• An introduction to spectra (Notes, Video)
  Antwerp Algebra Colloquium, online
• Topological Hochschild cohomology for schemes (Notes, Video)
  LAGOON, online
• Mac Lane cohomology and topological Hochschild cohomology
  Algebra Seminar, Manchester (online)

2020

• Khovanov homology via derived categories of coherent sheaves (Notes)
  Seminar on knot homologies, online
• An introduction to topological Hochschild theory (Notes)
  Hodge Club, Edinburgh (online)
• Topological Hochschild cohomology for schemes (Notes, Video)
  Derived, Birational, and Categorical Algebraic Geometry, Banff (online)
• Derived deformation theory
  Higher homotopy algebras in topology 2, Dublin

2019

• Derived categories (Notes)
  Homological Mirror Symmetry by Examples seminar, Edinburgh
• The derived contraction algebra
  Workshop on Derived Categories, Moduli Spaces and Deformation Theory, Cetraro
• Contraction algebras and noncommutative derived geometry
  Hodge Day 2019, Edinburgh
• Contraction algebras and noncommutative derived geometry
  Algebra Seminar, Glasgow
• An introduction to derived noncommutative geometry
  GEARS, Glasgow
• Contraction algebras and noncommutative derived geometry
  CALF, Warwick
• Deformation theory
  Postgraduate Forum, Lancaster

2018

• Deformation theory
  JAWS, Warwick
• Deformation theory
  Hodge Club, Edinburgh
• Real analysis in reverse
  PG Colloquium, Edinburgh
• Threefold flops and the derived contraction algebra (Notes)
  GAeL XXVI, Strasbourg
• Flops and the (derived) contraction algebra
  Hodge Club, Edinburgh
• Hochschild homology (Notes by Brent Pym)
  Noncommutative Hodge theory seminar, Edinburgh

2017

• Derived contraction algebras
  Work in progress seminar, Edinburgh
• DGAs and A-infinity algebras (Notes)
  Hodge Club, Edinburgh
• Dissections: How to cut things up (Slides)
  PG Colloquium, Edinburgh
• DG-categories and derived categories
  Student homotopy theory seminar, Edinburgh
• Noncommutative deformations and surface autoequivalences
  Derived Categories working group, Edinburgh
• Threefold Flops and the Contraction Algebra (Notes)
  Hodge Club, Edinburgh
• Formal deformation theory (Sernesi, 2.1-2.3)
  Reading Course on Deformation Theory, Edinburgh
• Versal deformations (Notes)
  Reading Course on Deformation Theory, Edinburgh
• Deformation Theory and DGLAs (Slides)
  GEARS, Glasgow
• A polynomial that detects the consistency of set theory (Slides)
  PG Colloquium, Edinburgh

2016

• An Introduction to Spectral Sequences (Notes)
  Reading Seminar on Homological algebra, Edinburgh
• Stable Homotopy Theory (Notes)
  Hodge Club, Edinburgh
• A problem in deformation theory
  Hodge Day 2016, Edinburgh
• Elementary (ha-ha) Aspects of Topos Theory (Notes)
  Ninja Workshop on Category Theory, Edinburgh
• Deformation Theory (Slides)
  EMS Postgrad Meeting 2016, The Burn
• Tropical Geometry
  PG Colloquium, Edinburgh
• Higher Categories, Complete Segal Spaces, and the Cobordism Hypothesis (Notes)
  Working Seminar on Topological Field Theory, Edinburgh
• t-structures and Perverse Sheaves
  Working Seminar on Perverse Sheaves and the Decomposition Theorem, Edinburgh

2015

• An Introduction to Model Categories (Notes)
  Category Theory Seminar, Edinburgh
• An Introduction to Morita Theory (Notes)
  SMSTC Working Seminar on Finite Dimensional Algebras, Edinburgh