Edna Jones: Talks

Invited Math Colloquium Talks, Keynote Talks, & Plenary Talks

Here is a list of some of my invited math colloquium talks, keynote talks, and plenary talks.

"Apollonian circle packings and integers," Keynote Speech for North Carolina State University's Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Sonia Kovalevsky (SK) Day (Apr. 13, 2024) [slides]
"Apollonian circle packings, integers, and higher-dimensional sphere packings,"
- Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Wake Forest University (Nov. 9, 2023) [slides]
- Colloquium, Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME) (June 30, 2023) [slides]
- Math/Stat Colloquium, Swarthmore College (Mar. 22, 2022) [slides]
- Math/Stats Colloquium, Carleton College (virtual) (Sept. 22, 2020) [slides]
"The Descartes circle theorem: How kissing circles give rise to a quadratic equation," Math/Stats Colloquium, Carleton College (Jan. 24, 2022) [slides]
"An Asymptotic Local-Global Principle for Integral Kleinian Sphere Packings," Plenary Talk, Mid-Atlantic Seminar On Numbers V (virtual) (Mar. 28, 2021) [slides]

Here is a list of some of my other invited math talks.

"Pre-Talk for Bayou Arithmetic Research Day (BARD) 4," covering partitions, generating functions, and the circle method (Oct. 11, 2024) [slides]
"Lecture on the circle method," Bootcamp for the 35th Automorphic Forms Workshop (May 22, 2023) [slides] [slides with slightly more detail, especially about the delta method]
"The Kloosterman circle method and weighted representation numbers of positive definite quadratic forms"

Ramanujan-Serre (Number Theory) Seminar, University of Virginia (Mar. 17, 2023) [slides]
Algebra, Combinatorics, Topology, Geometry, and Number Theory Seminar (ANT-CoG), University of North Carolina Greensboro (Feb. 27, 2023) [slides]
Number Theory Seminar, Kansas State University (Feb. 1, 2023) [slides]
AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms, Modular Forms, and Applications, Joint Mathematics Meetings (Jan. 6, 2023) [slides]
Number Theory Seminar, Duke University (Sept. 28, 2022) [slides]

"A strong asymptotic local-global principle for integral Kleinian sphere packings," Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, Louisiana State University (Nov. 16, 2021) [slides]
"Local-global I: Apollonian packings," Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Thin Groups and Super-approximation, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (virtual) (Oct. 12, 2021) [slides]
"A local-global principle for integral Kleinian sphere packings" [slides]
- Number Theory Seminar, Duke University (virtual) (Oct. 6, 2021)
- Number Theory Seminar, Rutgers University (virtual) (Oct. 5, 2021)
- Purdue Analytic Number Theory and Harmonic Analysis (PANTHA) Seminar, Purdue University (virtual) (Sept. 29, 2021)
"An Asymptotic Local-Global Principle for Integral Kleinian Sphere Packings" [slides]
- Number Theory Seminar, University of Washington (virtual) (Mar. 30, 2021)
- Number Theory Seminar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (virtual) (Mar. 16, 2021)
- Number Theory Seminar, University of Cambridge (virtual) (Mar. 9, 2021)
"The Local-Global Principle for Integral Crystallographic Sphere Packings," AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms and Theta Functions, Joint Mathematics Meetings (virtual) (Jan. 6, 2021) [slides]
"Local Densities of Diagonal Integral Ternary Quadratic Forms at Odd Primes," Study Group in Number Theory Seminar, The Graduate Center, CUNY (Feb. 28, 2020) [slides]

Here is a list of some of my other talks. For a much more complete list of my talks, please see my CV.

"My Story: How did I get to where I am," Our Stories, Online Undergraduate Resource Fair for the Advancement in Academia of Marginalized Mathematicians (OURFA²M²) (virtual) (Dec. 19, 2020) [slides]
"Möbius Transformations and the Bends and Centers of Generalized Circles, Spheres, and Hyperspheres," Rutgers Graduate Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar (virtual) (Nov. 11, 2020) [video] [slides]