Seminars: 2014

Distribution of particle displacements due to swimming microorganisms. Talk at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Francisco, CA, 24 November 2014.
Shallow fluids meet Einstein: an experimental geodesic flow on a curved space. Talk at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Francisco, CA, 23 November 2014.
Random entanglements. Applied Mathematics Seminar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 20 November 2014.
Topological tools for the real world. Claremont Colleges Mathematics Colloquium, 29 October 2014.
How swimming microorganisms displace fluid particles. Workshop on Turbulent Transport and Mixing, IPAM, Los Angeles, CA, 13 October 2014.
Topological tools for the real world. Mathematics in Science and Society Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 16 September 2014.
An introduction to braids. Informal lecture, Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 9 September 2014.
The topological complexity of orbit data. Plenary talk at the Workshop on Set-oriented Numerics, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2 September 2014.
Einstein on the beach: fluid flow on a curved space. SDG Seminar, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 29 August 2014.
How swimming microorganisms displace fluid particles. Applied Math Seminar, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 28 August 2014.
Why are all my power cords entangled? A lecture on random entanglement. Talk at the Summer Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Woods Hole, MA, 14 July 2014.
Random braids. Plenary talk (AMS Invited Address), SIAM Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 11 July 2014. [video]
Hyperbolic geometry. Talk at Math Week, East High School, Madison, WI, 19 May 2014.
Transport and Mixing in Complex and Turbulent Flows: Progress since the 2010 IMA workshop. Talk at the Summit on Complex Fluids and Complex Flows, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, MN, 9 May 2014.
pseudo-Anosovs with small or large dilatation. Plenary talk, AMS Central Section Meeting, Lubbock, TX, 12 April 2014.
The topology of fluid mixing. Physics Colloquium, University of Texas at Austin, TX, 19 March 2014.
The topology of fluid mixing. Talk at the Workshop on Algebraic Topology in Dynamics, Differential Equations, and Experimental Data, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, MN, 12 February 2014.
Distribution of particle displacements in biomixing. Talk at the Workshop on Mixing, transport, and coherent structures, Oberwolfach, Germany, 28 January 2014.
Topological tools for trajectory data analysis. Talk at the SJTU International Forum on Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 10 January 2014.