Constructing Voter Preferences, CanaDAM, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2019
Constructing Voter Preferences, Great Plains Combinatorics Conference, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, April 2018
To Catch a Thief: Pursuit-Evasion in Two Dimensions, Keynote Address, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Midstates Consortium for Math and Science, Washington University, St Louis, MO, November 2016
A Hitting Time Formula for the Discrete Green’s Function, AMS Sectional Meeting, University of St Thomas, Minneapolis, MN, October 2016.
Combinatorial Games in Discrete Math, MAA North Central Section Meeting, Macalester College, St Paul MN, April 2016,
A Hitting Time Formula for the Discrete Green’s Function, 17th International Workshop on Random Structures and Algorithms, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsbugh, PA, July 2015
A Hitting Time Formula for the Discrete Green’s Function, Connections in Discrete Mathematics, Simon Frasier University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2015
Maker-Breaker Games on Random Geometric Graphs, AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, September 2014
Line-of-Sight Pursuit in Sweepable Polygons, SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Minneapolis, MN, June 2014
Maker-Breaker Games on Random Geometric Graphs, Workshop on Probability and Graphs Eurandom (European Institute for Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Operations Research and their Applications), Eindhoven Technical University, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, January 2014
Maker-Breaker Games on Random Geometric Graphs, Plenary Speaker, Science Atlantic Special Session on Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, , October 2013
Maker-Breaker Games on Random Geometric Graphs, Discrete Mathematics Day, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT, , September 2013
Maker-Breaker Games on Random Geometric Graphs, 16th International Workshop on Random Structures and Algorithms, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, August 2013
On the Minimum Order of $k$-cop-win Graphs, MIGHTY LIII Conference, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, September 2012
Cops and Robbers on Geometric Graphs, SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2012
The Petersen Graph is the Smallest 3-cop-win Graph, Graph Searching in Canada Workshop, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 2012
Cops and Robbers on Geometric Graphs, AMS Central Section Meeting, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE, October 2011
Exact Mixing Measures for Trees, 15th International Workshop on Random Structures and Algorithms, Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, May 2011
Visibility Number for Directed Planar Graphs and Tournaments, Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, June 2011
A Simultaneous Random Walk Game, AMS Central Section Meeting, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, March 2011
Exit Frequency Matrices for Random Walks on Graphs, AMS Midwestern Sectional Meeting, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, April 2010
Exit Frequency Matrices for Finite Markov Chains, 14th International Workshop on Random Structures and Algorithms, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. August 2009
Extremal Mixing Times for Trees, MAA North Central Section Meeting, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN, April 2009
Random Cubic Sum Graphs, SMALL Mini-Conference, Williams College, Williamstown MA, June 2008
Centers for Random Walks on Trees, Workshop on Markov Chain Monte Carlo, DIMACS, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, June 2007
Research Seminars
Fractal Dramaturgy of “Game of Thrones”, St Olaf College, Northfield, MN, April 2018
Fractal Dramaturgy of “Game of Thrones”, University of St Thomas, St Paul, MN, February 2018
To Catch a Thief: Pursuit-Evasion in Two Dimensions, Macalester College, St Paul, MN, September 2016
To Catch a Thief: Pursuit-Evasion in Two Dimensions, Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary July 2016
Scotty Macalester and the Mathematical Sorting Hat, St Olaf College, Northfield, MN, February 2013
The Game of Cops and Robbers on Graphs, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
Visibility Number for Directed Planar Graphs and Tournaments, Iowa State University, Ames IA, May 2011
Randomization and Strategy on Graphs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, March 2011
Scotty Macalester and the Mathematical Sorting Hat, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, February 2010
Random Cubic Sum Graphs, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, April 2007
Random Walks and Stopping Rules, Bard College, January 2007
Random Walks and Stopping Rules, Macalester College, January 2007
On the Connectivity of Extremal Ramsey Graphs, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA,, March 2006
Random Walks and the Regeneration Time, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, December 2005
Disorientation and Amnesia: Stopping Rules for Finite Markov Chains, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, May 1998
Stop in the name of $\pi$: Stopping Rules and Finite Markov Chains, Williams College, Williamstown MA, March 1997
Somebody Stop Me: Random Walks and Stopping Rules, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, October 1995
Other Presentations
Network Centralities in Star Wars, CONvergence Online, April 2021
Network Centralities, Topics in Mathematics Presentation. Breck School, Golden Valley, MN, January 2020,
Can Social Media Be Used For Good?, Macalester Big Questions Event Series, San Francisco, CA, January 2020
Network Centralities, Math Club Presentation, Great River High School, St Paul, MN, April 2019
Fractal Dramaturgy of “Game of Thrones”, Conversations about our Scholarly Lives, Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching Macalester College, St Paul, MN, December 2017
Networks of Ice and Fire, Ottowa Graph Meetup, Ottowa, ON, Canada, August 2016
The Catalan Chameleon, Plenary Talk, MathPath Summer Camp, Macalester College, St Paul MN, July 2013
The Catalan Chameleon, Plenary Talk, MathPath Summer Camp, Macalester College, St Paul MN, July 2010
