Talks and presentations

Invited talks

• On the binary actions of finite simple groups
  Modern Flavours of Finite Groups, University of Warwick, UK, 2026.
• The binary actions of sporadic groups
  Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, University of Western Australia, Australia, 2026.
• The binary actions of sporadic groups
  Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Monash University, Australia, 2026.
• Bases in unexpected places
  Heilbronn Algebra Seminar, University of Manchester, UK, 2026.
• Bases in unexpected places
  Mathematics Seminar, Royal Holloway University of London, UK, 2026.
• Base sizes and representation theory
  London Algebra Colloquium, Imperial College London, UK, 2025.
• The binary actions of sporadic groups
  Orbit – meetings on groups and representations, University of Birmingham, UK, 2025.
• The binary actions of sporadic groups
  Combinatorics Seminar, University of Bristol, UK, 2025.
• Bases in unexpected places
  Mathematics Colloquium, The Open University, UK, 2025.
• Cameron's Greedy Conjecture
  Conference on Theoretical and Computational Algebra 2025, University of Évora, Portugal, 2025.
• Greedy bases for primitive groups
  Finite Groups, Fusion Systems and Applications, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, 2025.
• It's (probably) okay to be greedy
  Algebra Seminar, University of Warwick, UK, 2025.
• The base size of the symmetric group and an unexpected connection
  Junior London Algebra Colloquium, Imperial College London, UK, 2024.
• The base size of the symmetric group
  Seminars on Groups and Graphs, Southern University of Science and Technology, China, 2024.
• Block designs of dimension three
  2020 Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, Combinatorial Designs session, Canada, 2020.

Contributed talks

• A character theoretic formula for base size
  Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar, University of St Andrews, UK, 2025.
• Greedy base sizes for sporadic simple groups
  Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra (CIRCA) Seminar, University of St Andrews, UK, 2024.
• Greedy bases for primitive groups
  Topics in Group Theory – on the occasion of Andrea Lucchini's 60th(+) birthday, University of Padova, Italy, 2024.
• It's not always bad to be greedy
  CIRCA Seminar, University of St Andrews, UK, 2024.
• The base size of primitive actions of the symmetric group
  CIRCA Seminar, University of St Andrews, UK, 2023.
• A complete existence theory for signed graph designs
  Discrete Math Seminar, University of Victoria, Canada, 2021.

Panel discussions

• How to make an irritating Sudoku puzzle
  Ideafest, University of Victoria, Canada, 2020.