Talks

Below find a list of talks I’ve given, as well as links to slides.

2025

• The Cubic Formula and its Consequences:A Math Teachers’ Circle Report — Joint Math Meetings, Seattle WA

2024

• Exploring the Cubic Formula (NW Iowa Math Teachers Circle) | Slides | PDF
• The Surprisingly Spicy Story of the Cubic Formula — Dordt Math/Stats Colloquium, Sioux Center,IA (additional notes)

2023

• On Symbolic Powers of Ideals — Conference on Unexpected and Asymptotic Properties of Varieties (aka BrianFest), Lincoln, NE. August 2023.

2022

• Liberal Arts Mathematics for Human Flourishing. MAA MathFest 2022, Philadelphia, PA. August 2022.

• Liberal Arts Mathematics for Human Flourishing. 23rd Biennial Conference of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, Azusa Pacific University. June 2022.

2021

• Exploring Algebra via Graphs — Calvin University Colloquium (virtual). September 2021

• Pseudo-Ungraded Calculus Exams. MAA MathFest (virtual). August 2021.

2020

• Rings With Inquiry. MAA Themed Contributed Paper Session on Teaching Abstract Algebra, Joint Math Meetings (Denver, CO). January 2020.

2019

• Delivering Pre-Class Activities Online to Impact Student Learning (Poster). MAA Poster Session, MathFest (Cincinnati, OH). August 2019.

2018

• Promoting Inquiry via Recreational Problems in a Liberal Arts Math Course. MAA Themed Contributed Paper Session on Inquiry-Based Learning, MathFest (Denver, CO). August 2018.

• A first experience in a flipped Calculus II course. MAA Themed Contributed Paper Session on Flipped Classes, Implementation and Evaluation, Joint Mathematics Meetings (San Diego, CA). January 2018.

2017

• Cut Your Cake (And Eat It, Too!). MAA Themed Contributed Paper Session on “My Favorite Math Circle Problem”, MathFest (Chicago, IL). July 2017.

• An Overview of Specifications Grading. 21st ACMS Biennial Conference, Charleston Southern University (Charleston, SC). May 2017.

• My Favorite Math Circle Problem: Cut Your Cake (And Eat It, Too!). 21st Biennial Conference of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, Charleston Southern University (Charleston, SC). May 2017.

• Specifications Grading in a First Course in Abstract Algebra. MAA Themed Contributed Paper Session on “Teaching Abstract Algebra, Topics and Techniques”, Joint Mathematics Meetings (Atlanta, GA). January 2017.

2016

• Improving proof-writing with reading guides. MAA Themed Contributed Paper Session on Encouraging Early Career Teaching Innovation, MathFest (Columbus, OH). August 2016.

• Implementing Specifications Grading in a Linear Algebra course. MAA Session on Assessing Student Learning, Alternative Approaches, Joint Math Meetings (Seattle, WA). January 2016.

2015

• The Importance of \(\alpha\) — MAA MathFest (Washington, DC). August 2015.

• Symbolic Powers of Edge Ideals — 20th ACMS Biennial Conference, Redeemer University College (Hamilton ON). May 2015.

• Symbolic Powers of Ideals: Problems and Progress — University of South Dakota Math Department Seminar (Vermillion, SD) March 2015.

• On the Fattening of Lines in \(\mathbb{P}^3\) – Oberwolfach Mini-Workshop 1508a, Ideals of Linear Subspaces, Their Symbolic Powers and Waring Problems, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Oberwolfach, Germany). February 2015.