Seminars: 2015

A mathematical history of taffy pullers. Math Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 12 December 2015.
Optimizing transport in heat exchangers. Talk at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Conference, Boston, MA, 22 November 2015.
A mathematical history of taffy pullers. Arts & Sciences Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, 20 November 2015.
A mathematical history of taffy pullers. Math Club, Madison College, Madison, WI, 23 October 2015. [video]
A mathematical history of taffy pullers. Physics/Fields Colloquium, Department of Physics and Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 24 September 2015.
Optimizing heat exchangers. Talk at the Physical Applied Math Group Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 3 September 2015.
Topological surface dynamics. Lectures at the Summer Program on Computational Dynamics and Topology at ICERM, Brown University, Providence, RI, 14–16 July 2015.
Random kicks due to swimming organisms. Talk at the Summer Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Woods Hole, MA, 10 July 2015.
Optimizing exit times. Talk at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA, 6 July 2015.
Particle fluctuations induced by microswimmers. Talk at the Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics Conference, NJIT, Newark, NJ, 5 June 2015.
Control of Thin-Layer Flows with Patterned Surfaces. Talk at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT, 21 May 2015. [video]
Particle displacements by swimming organisms. Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, 20 April 2015.
Random entanglements. Seminar, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, 16 March 2015.
Topological tools for the real world. Higgs Colloquium, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 13 March 2015.
Computing the distribution of displacements due to swimming organisms. Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 12 March 2015.
Particle displacements by swimming organisms. Bio-lunch Seminar, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 19 February 2015.
Random entanglements. AMMP Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK, 12 February 2015.
Applied topology and dynamics. Applied Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 6 February 2015.
Einstein on the beach: fluid flow on a curved space. Seminar, BP Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 5 February 2015.
Microorganism billiards. Fluid Mechanics Seminar, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 23 January 2015.