Teaching and External Mathematics

2023--Pres. Coordinator for MathsBombe.
2022--2024 MATH20621 Programming with Python.
2022--2023 MATH20201 Algebraic Structures 1.
I've also performed marking, covering and invigilation duties for various MATH units.

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Organisation

11-04-2025 NBSAN XXXVII, University of Manchester.
With Josiah Aakre and Thomas Aird.

09-04-2025 Introduction to Modern Advances in Algebra 2025, University of Manchester.
With Isabel Martin-Lyons.

Winter 2024 Reading Group on C*-Algebras, University of Manchester.

2023/2024 Pure Postgraduate Seminar, University of Manchester.
With Anton Farmar and Peej Ingarfield.

25-03-2022 NBSAN XXXI: Young NBSAN, University of Manchester.
With Thomas Aird, Dmitry Kudryavtsev, Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda and Georgia Schneider.

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Selected talks and poster presentations

For a complete list, see details of every presentation I've given here.

04-02-2026 Planar graphs, Monthly Seminar, Rochdale Sixth Form College. [Slides]

15-12-2025 Pretzel monoids, NBSAN XXXIX, Durham University. [Slides]

26-09-2025 Pretzel Monoids, MRSC XIX, University of Manchester. [Poster] Awarded best poster.

26-09-2025 How to complete a PhD (by someone who has*), MRSC XIX, University of Manchester. [Slides]

03-07-2025 Growth of monogenic free adequate monoids, Geometric and Combinatorial (Inverse) Semigroup Theory at Theoretical and Computational Algebra 2025, Universidade de Évora, PT. [Slides]

24-04-2025 An Introduction to Semigroup Theory, Transpennine Expressers Conference, University of Sheffield.

10-04-2025 Pretzel Monoids, Introduction to Modern Advances in Algebra 2025, University of Manchester. [Poster]

05-02-2025 Singly aligned monoids and group(oid)-embeddability relating to C*-algebras, Student Algebra Seminar, University of Manchester.

11-12-2024 Quasivarieties, Adequate Monoids and Expansions, York Semigroup, University of York. [Slides]

22-11-2024 Moroccan birds, coots, risk unending snow stoms for this talk? (13, 2, 10) - Combinatorics on Crosswords, Pure Postgraduate Seminar, University of Manchester. [Slides] Voted talk of the year.

27-09-2024 Three Cornerstones of Pure Mathematics, MRSC XVIII, University of Manchester.

04-09-2024 Pretzel Monoids: A Dive into Geometric Semigroup Theory, HDP 1-Day at Heilbronn Annual Conference 2024, University of Bristol. [Slides]

02-07-2024 Pretzel Monoids: Left Adequate Expansions of R. Cancellative Monoids, Theoretical and Computational Alg. '24, Universidade de Aveiro, PT. [Slides]

19-06-2024 Pretzel Monoids: Left Adequate Expansions of R. Cancellative Monoids, 75th British Mathematical Colloquium, University of Manchester. [Slides]

19-06-2024 Pretzel Monoids, 75th British Mathematical Colloquium, University of Manchester. [Poster]

13-06-2024 Non-Embeddable Right LCM Semigroups, UK Operator Algebras Conference, Newcastle University.

07-06-2024 C*-Algebras, Right LCM and Interval Monoids, Semigroup Seminar, University of Manchester.

15-04-2024 Embedding (Right LCM) Semigroups into Groups, Student Algebra Seminar, University of Manchester.

21-02-2024 Pretzel Monoids: A Dive into Geometric Semigroup Theory, Introduction to Modern Advances in Algebra, University of Exeter. [Slides]

29-09-2023 Left Adequate Semigroups and Graph Expansions, MRSC XVII, University of Manchester.

11-08-2022 Food Supply Graphs, HDP Summer Programme 2022, ICMS Edinburgh.

17-12-2021 Free Adequate Semigroups, Semigroup Seminar, University of Manchester.

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Selected other conferences and meetings

11-04-2025 NBSAN XXXVII, University of Manchester (Organiser).

09-04-2025 Introduction to Modern Advances in Algebra 2025, University of Manchester (Organiser).

Weekly 23/24 Pure Postgraduate Seminar, University of Manchester (Organiser).

24-07-2023 HDP Summer Programme 2023, University of Bristol.

03-07-2023 Theoretical and Computational Algebra 2023, Pocinho, PT.

24-06-2022 Topics in Geometric Semigroup Theory and NBSAN XXXII, University of York.

25-03-2022 NBSAN XXXI: Young NBSAN, University of Manchester (Organiser).