.. _past:

Past Activities
===============

Some of the things I have previously been involved in:

 - `Big Surf(aces) Seminar <http://fanoni.perso.math.cnrs.fr/bigsurf.html>`_ in November 2021.
 - `Science Gateways Community Institute 2021 Conference <https://sciencegateways.org/web/gateways2021/welcome>`_ in October 2021.
 - `World of GroupCraft <https://sites.google.com/view/world-of-ggt/>`_ in August 2021.
 - `Groups, graphs, geometry and complexity <https://sites.google.com/view/groups-graphs/home>`_ in August 2021.
 - `Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry <http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/21-22/WADS-CCCG>`_ in August 2021.
 - `Mathematical Congress of the Americas <https://www.mca2021.org/en/>`_ in July 2021.
 - `Structures on Surfaces <https://members.loria.fr/Monique.Teillaud/collab/SoS/>`_ in June 2021.
 - `Knots, Surfaces and 3-manifolds <http://www.birs.ca/events/2021/5-day-workshops/21w5094>`_ in June, 2021.
 - `Geometry and Groups in the South East <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahllo/ggse/>`_ in June 2021.
 - `Cornell Topology Festival <https://e.math.cornell.edu/sites/topology/2021/schedule.php>`_ in May 2021.
 - `Tech Topology Conference <https://etnyre.math.gatech.edu/TechTopology/2020/index.html>`_ in December 2020.
 - `Geometry and Topology Online <http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~masgar/Seminar/current_seminar.html>`_ in October 2020.
 - `Global Virtual Sage Days 110 <https://wiki.sagemath.org/days110>`_ in October 2020.
 - `Global Virtual Sage Days 109 <https://wiki.sagemath.org/days109>`_ in May 2020.
 - `Lost in Translation Surfaces <http://math.uni.lu/geometry/sos2020/>`_ at University of Luxembourg in January 2020.
 - `Algorithms in complex dynamics and mapping class groups <https://icerm.brown.edu/events/ht19-3-acdm/>`_ at ICERM in November 2019.
 - `Geometry and Analysis: celebrating the mathematics of Pierre Pansu <https://sites.google.com/site/enricoledonne/pansu60/conference>`_ at Oxford University in September 2019.
 - `SageDays 100 <https://opendreamkit.org/2019/07/22/SageDays100/>`_ at Bonn University in July 2019.
 - `Computational Problems in Low-dimensional Topology II <https://groups.oist.jp/manifolds/mini-symposium-2019>`_ at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in April 2019.
 - Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in March 2019.
 - `Groups and Geometry in the South East <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahllo/ggse/>`_ in 2019.
 - `Bristol Topology and Groups Meeting <https://www.wescac.net/scheme9.html>`_ at the University of Bristol in 2018.
 - `Geometry of Teichmüller space and mapping class groups <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2017-18/symposium/gtsmcg/>`_ at the University of Warwick in 2018.
 - `Computation in geometric topology <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2017-18/symposium/cgt/>`_ at the University of Warwick in 2017.
 - `Introduction to geometry, dynamics, and moduli in low dimensions <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2017-18/nonsymposium/igdm/>`_ at the LMS--CMI Research School in 2017.
 - Junior Geometry & Topology in the midwest at University of Wisconsin--Madison in 2017.
 - `Trisections and low-dimensional topology <https://aimath.org/pastworkshops/trisections.html>`_ at American Institute of Mathematics in 2017.
 - `Redbud Triangulations <https://math.okstate.edu/research/conferences/381-fall-2016-redbud-triangulations-conference>`_ at Oklahoma State in 2016.
 - `Geometry of mapping class groups and Out(Fn) <http://www.msri.org/workshops/771>`_ at MSRI in 2016.
 - `Sage Days 74 <https://wiki.sagemath.org/days74>`_ at Observatoire de Paris in 2016.
 - `Effective and Algorithmic Methods in Hyperbolic Geometry and Free Groups <https://icerm.brown.edu/topical_workshops/tw16-2-hgfg/>`_ at ICERM, Brown University in 2016.
 - `Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics Day <https://sites.google.com/site/ggdsp16/home>`_ at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis in 2016.
 - `Topology and Computer 2015 <http://auemath.aichi-edu.ac.jp/~ainoue/workshop/TopologyComputer2015.html>`_ at Nihon University in 2015.
 - `Computational Geometric and Algebraic Topology <https://www.mfo.de/occasion/1542/www_view>`_ at Oberwolfach in 2015.
 - `Young Researchers in Mathematics 2014 <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2013-2014/nonsymp/yrm2014/>`_ where my poster `How many loops are on this surface <_static/poster.pdf>`_ won first prize in their poster competition.
 - `Computational & Algorithmic Topology, Sydney <http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/tillmann/cats2014/>`_ at University of Sydney in 2014.
 - `Low-dimensional Topology, Geometry, and Dynamics <http://icerm.brown.edu/sp-f13>`_ at ICERM, Brown University in 2013.
 - `Warwick postgraduate seminar <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/seminars/areas/postgraduate/2012-13/>`_.
 - `Geometry and Topology reading seminar <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/seminars/areas/gtreading/>`_. In 2012 it was based on `Word Processing in Groups <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/seminars/areas/gtreading/2012-13/>`_ and in 2013 it was based on the `Bestvina-Handel algorithm <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/seminars/areas/gtreading/2013-14/>`_.

As well as some non-mathematical things:

 - EuroPython 2021,
 - PyCon US 2021,
 - PyCon UK 2017,
 - Cloud OnAir,
 - UK Manycore Developer Conference,
 - Scaling to Petascale Institute 2017,
 - XSEDE HPC Big Data Workshop,
 - GPU Programming Using OpenACC, and
 - Core Algorithms for High Performance Scientific Computing.

I have also given talks at:
University of Glasgow;
University of Wisconsin--Madison;
Eastern Illinois University;
Brown University;
University of Toronto;
Oklahoma State University;
University of California, Santa Barbra;
University of California, Davis;
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute;
Temple University;
City University of New York;
CIAS Paris;
University of Illinois at Chicago;
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton;
Indiana University -- Purdue University Indianapolis;
Nihon University;
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach;
Indiana University;
University of Illinois;
The University of Sheffield;
University of Queensland;
University of Sydney;
ICERM;
Toulouse Mathematics Institute;
University of Cambridge;
University of Bristol;
Imperial College London;
University of Warwick; and
University of Southampton.