Presentations

Research talks and lectures

Seminars, conference presentations, colloquia, and invited talks across combinatorics, control theory, machine learning, and applied mathematics.

2026

Bounds on the Critical Multiplicity of Ramsey Numbers with Many Colors (with Casia Steinhaus)

April 19, 2026 · AMS Spring Central Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Computational Combinatorics III, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

2026

A Refinement in Čech Cohomology of Coron's Necessary Condition

Topics in Pure and Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of North Dakota

2026

Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems by Gain-Limited Feedback Laws

Topics in Pure and Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of North Dakota

2025

Reliable Extraction of Strong Lottery Tickets in Neural Networks

Midwest Optimization Meeting, University of North Dakota

2025

Reliable Extraction of Strong Lottery Tickets in Neural Networks (with Jack Baretz, Darian Colgrove, Daniel Kwakye, Martin Epstein, and Salah Dandan)

Joint MAA North Central Section and MinnMATYC Fall Meeting, Concordia University, St. Paul, MN

2024

When Do the Kahn–Kalai Bounds Provide New Information?

Topics in Pure and Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of North Dakota

2024

Local Quotient Maps

Topics in Pure and Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of North Dakota

2023

An Introduction to Comma Categories and Slice Categories with Examples

Topics in Pure and Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of North Dakota

2023

A Primer on Lyapunov Theory

Topics in Pure and Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of North Dakota

2023

An Extension of the Kahn–Kalai Bounds

Topics in Pure and Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of North Dakota

2023

Some Algebraic Techniques for Ramsey Theory

MAA North Central Section Fall Meeting, University of Minnesota Duluth

2023

Some Algebraic Techniques for Ramsey Theory

Topics in Pure and Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of North Dakota

2023

The Feedback Stabilization Problem and Local Sections

Topics in Pure and Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of North Dakota

2023

Stability: From Basketballs to Big Stuff

Elevating Mathematics Video Competition, Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, National Academies · virtual

2022

Expectation Thresholds and the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

Physics & Astrophysics Colloquium, University of North Dakota

2022

Expectation Thresholds and the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

MAA North Central Section Fall Meeting, University of North Dakota

2021

Understanding Upside-Down Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning Colloquium, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Group, The Aerospace Corporation

2020

Integrated Digital Engineering Prototyping Testbed Hub: Markovian Techniques for Mission Thread Analysis in Support of Acquisitions Decisions

Systems Engineering Forum, Computer Applications & Assurance Subdivision, The Aerospace Corporation

2020

An Introduction to Extremal Graph Theory in Intelligence Applications

Space Launch and Intelligence Colloquium, Strategic & Global Awareness Directorate, The Aerospace Corporation

2018

Variational Characterizations of Local Asymptotic and Exponential Stabilizability

Von Neumann Seminar in Analysis, University of Wyoming

2018

A K-Theory for Combinatorial Games

Graduate Presentations in K-Theory, University of Wyoming

2017

Local Asymptotic Stabilizability and the Smoothness of Stabilizing Controls

Von Neumann Seminar in Analysis, University of Wyoming

2017

Regularity of Linear Elliptic and Parabolic Solutions: A Weakening of the Lipschitz Condition

Graduate Presentations in Partial Differential Equations, University of Wyoming

2017

Trace Parameterization of Nonnegative Hermitian Trigonometric Polynomials: A Control Theory Perspective

Graduate Presentations in Harmonic Analysis, University of Wyoming

2016

The Combinatorial Game of Nim on Graphs

Graduate Research Seminar, University of Wyoming

2015

Nim on Tree Graphs

Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Session, MAA MathFest, Washington, DC

2015

The Combinatorial Game of Nim on Trees

Arthur Olsen Student Research Symposium, Augustana College

2015

Geometric Connections between Graphical and Integer Ramsey Theory: What Can van der Waerden Numbers Tell Us About Congressional Infighting?

Math on the Northern Plains, MAA Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Dordt College

2015

The Combinatorial Game of Nim on Trees

Math on the Northern Plains, MAA Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Dordt College

2014

Edge Nim on Trees (with Lindsay Erickson)

MAA North Central Section Fall Meeting, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND