Talks and presentations

Invited speaker

1. Counting realisations for rigid graphs. NYC Geometry Seminar at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (online), 13th February 2024. (Joint research with G. Grasegger.) https://youtu.be/SJ_q1hlVwO8?si=HvOw6qezswshdZ2g

2. A link between structurally rigid bar-and-joint frameworks and irreducible tropical curves. Heilbronn Annual Review Seminar at the University of Bristol, 7th December 2023. (Joint research with F. Babaee and J. Maxwell.)

3. Homothetic packings of convex bodies. Seminar on Combinatorics, Games and Optimisation at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, 8th June 2023. (Joint research with R. Hutchins.)

4. A beginners guide to combinatorial rigidity and flexibility in the plane. Combinatorics Seminar at the University of Bristol, 2nd May 2023.

5. Identifying contact graphs of sphere packings with generic radii is NP-Hard. Graph rigidity and applications at Lancaster University, 21st April 2023.

6. Flexing the 1-skeleton of a Penrose tiling. 53rd Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing at Florida Atlantic University (online), 10th March 2022. (Joint research with J. Legerský.)

7. Homothetic packings of centrally symmetric convex bodies. Pure Maths Colloquium at the University of St Andrews (online), 27th January 2022.

8. Graph rigidity in normed spaces (or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the norm). The Workshop on Progress and Open Problems in Rigidity Theory at the Fields Institute (online), 22nd February 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBSxTNZGD1o

Guest lecturer

1. Graph flattenability. Graduate Course on Real algebraic & Distance geometry in Discrete Structures and Kinematics at the Fields Institute (online), 16th & 18th March 2021. Lecture 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK9ixasQ6Xg&list=PLArBKNfJxuulcv7WwjwNb8wPJwmQhCd9M&index=11. Lecture 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vHGFIWde40&list=PLArBKNfJxuulcv7WwjwNb8wPJwmQhCd9M&index=12

2. When are complete bipartite frameworks infinitesimally rigid? Graduate Course on Combinatorial and Geometric Rigidity at the Fields Institute (online), 10th February 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8A8rF5MD9I&list=PLArBKNfJxuuk6DK1oE1zrU_16TW-reOAr&index=10

Selcted others

1. The number of realisations of a rigid graph in Euclidean and spherical geometries. Workshop on Geometric Constraints: Materials, Graphs and Matroids, Rigidity and Packings at the Fields Institute, 11th July 2023. (Joint research with G. Grasegger.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQn_8PHQUg&ab_channel=FieldsInstitute

2. Introducing genericity to convex body packings. Interplay between Geometric Analysis and Discrete Geometry at Casa Matemática Oaxaca (online), 27th June 2023.

3. Quotient graphs of symmetrically rigid frameworks. 29th British Combinatorial Conference at Lancaster University, 14th July 2022. (Joint research with G. Grasegger, E. Kastis and A. Nixon.)

4. The number of realisations of a minimally rigid graph in various geometries. 24th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society at National University of Ireland, 23rd June 2022. (Joint research with G. Grasegger.)

5. Flexible placements of graphs with rotational symmetry. 2nd IMA Conference on Mathematics of Robotics (online only), 9th September 2021. (Joint research with G. Grasegger and J. Legerský.) 

6. Applying rigidity theory to homothetic convex body packings. International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications at Lancaster University (online).

7. Rigidity theory in normed spaces. Young Functional Analysis Workshop at Lancaster University (online), 14th August 2021.

8. Homothetic packings of centrally symmetric convex bodies. Workshop on the Geometry of Circle Packings at the Fields Institute (online), 12th April 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWJ91T0cDGA&ab_channel=FieldsInstitute 

9. Rotational symmetric flexible placements of graphs. The 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry at University of Würzburg (online), 16th March 2020. (Joint research with G. Grasegger and J. Legerský.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9XT502iXM8&ab_channel=EuroCG2020

10. Rigidity in the normed plane. Rigidity and Flexibility of Geometric Structures at Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, 27th September 2018.

11. Framework rigidity in normed spaces. Bond-node structures at Lancaster University, 6th June 2018.

12. Graph rigidity in non-Euclidean normed spaces. Young Functional Analysis Workshop at Newcastle University, 23rd March 2018.

13. The rigidity of infinite frameworks in Euclidean and polyhedral normed spaces. Bond-node structures at Lancaster University, 9th June 2017.