My research involves moonshine and related aspects of number theory. I'm particularly interested in the question: "Can moonshine help solve problems in number theory?"
Slides for a 5-min lightning talk on my work can be found here. For a quick introduction to moonshine, you can watch this 30-minute talk I gave on the topic.
Elliptic Curves and Thompson's Sporadic Simple group; arXiv. (submitted)
We characterize all infinite-dimensional graded virtual modules for Thompson’s sporadic simple group, whose graded traces are certain weight 3/2 weakly holomorphic modular forms satisfying special properties. We then use these modules to detect the non-triviality of Mordell--Weil, Selmer and Tate--Shafarevich groups of quadratic twists of certain elliptic curves.
Date/Time/Title TBA What is...? Seminar at the University of Queensland.
Online Seminar.
Date/Time/Title TBA Specialty Seminar in Partition Theory, q-Series, and Related Topics.
Online Seminar.
What is... Moonshine? UW Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Virtual "Pre-Seminar" talk aimed at grad students, March 9th, 2021.
Elliptic Curves and Moonshine; UW Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Online Seminar, March 9th, 2021. (Link, Slides.)
Elliptic Curves and Moonshine; University of Virginia Number Theory Seminar.
Online Seminar, February 19th, 2021. (Link.)
Elliptic Curves and Moonshine; Joint Mathematics Meetings; AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry.
Virtual Conference, January 8th, 2021. (Link, Recording.)
Elliptic Curves and Moonshine; Number Theory Seminar, University of Georgia.
Online Seminar, September 16th, 2020. (Zoom information, Slides.)
Elliptic Curves and Moonshine; Vanderbilt University Number Theory Seminar.
Online Seminar, September 1st, 2020. (Zoom information, Recording, Slides.)
Elliptic Curves and Moonshine; Number Theory Seminar, University of Georgia.
Online Seminar, September 16th, 2020. (Zoom information, Slides.)
Elliptic Curves and Moonshine; Joint Mathematics Meetings; AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry.
Virtual Conference; January 8th, 2021. (Link).
Elliptic Curves and Thompson's Sporadic Group; New Developments in Number Theory.
Virtual Contributed talk series; March 2nd, 2021. (Organized by POINT.)
Elliptic Curves and Thompson's group; Women at the Intersection of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Online Conference; February 22nd, 2021 (``Gong show'' style mini-presentation.)
Elliptic Curves and Thompson's group; Modularity in Quantum Systems.
Online Conference; December 15th, 2020 (``Gong show'' style mini-presentation.)
Recording (jump to 13:00); Slides.
Elliptic Curves and Thompson's group; PAlmetto Joint Arithmetic, Modularity, and Analysis Series (PAJAMAS).
Online Conference; September 19-20th, 2020. (Recording, Slides.)
Elliptic Curves and Moonshine; Madison Moduli Weekend.
Online Conference; September 26-27th, 2020. (5-minute "Lightning talk." Slides)
Measuring the Role of Curiosity in Student Engagement and Performance; The Advanced Graduate Teaching Fellowship Symposium.
Virtual Symposium; May 5th, 2020. (A Teaching-as-Research Project; Slides.)
Elliptic Curves and Thompson's Sporadic Group; New Developments in Number Theory.
Virtual Contributed talk series; March 2nd, 2021. (Organized by POINT.)
Elliptic Curves and Thompson's group; Modularity in Quantum Systems.
Online Conference; December 15th, 2020 (``Gong show'' style mini-presentation.)
Recording (jump to 13:00); Slides.
Elliptic Curves and Thompson's group; PAlmetto Joint Arithmetic, Modularity, and Analysis Series (PAJAMAS).
Online Conference; September 19-20th, 2020. (Recording, Slides.)
Elliptic Curves and Moonshine; Madison Moduli Weekend.
Online Conference; September 26-27th, 2020. (5-minute "Lightning talk." Slides)
Measuring the Role of Curiosity in Student Engagement and Performance; The Advanced Graduate Teaching Fellowship Symposium.
Virtual Symposium; May 5th, 2020. (A Teaching-as-Research Project; Slides.)