Conferences

I have given many talks and tutorials over the years. I’ve linked to the videos below where possible.

2025 Link to heading

Keynote: Jupyter Executive Council State of Jupyter Updates (with Rick Wagner), JupyterCon 2025, November 2025.
JupyterLab Extension tutorial, part 1, 2, 3, 4 (with Rosio Reyes, Konstantin Taletskiy, Matt Fisher, and Martha Cryan), JupyterCon 2025, November 2025.

Building on Jupyter at Databricks (with Florian Wetschoreck), JupyterCon 2023, May 2023.
State of the Union: Jupyter Community (with Ana Ruvalcaba, Afshin Darian, Fernando Pérez), JupyterCon 2023, May 2023.
Lightning Talk on coiling cords and lessons for community, JupyterCon 2023, May 2023.

Getting started with JupyterLab tutorial (with Matthias Bussonnier and Stephanie Stattel), Scipy 2019, July 2019.
The Jupyter Interactive Widget Ecosystem tutorial (with Maarten Breddels, Matt Craig, and Martin Renou), Scipy 2019, July 2019.

JupyterLab, PyData Paris Meetup, Jan 2018.
Interview about ACM 2017 Software System Award (with Paul Ivanov and Brian Granger), Jun 2018.
JupyterLab: The Next Generation Jupyter Web Interface, QCon.ai San Francisco, Jun 2018.
Getting Started with JupyterLab tutorial (with Matthias Bussonnier), Scipy 2018, Jul 2018.
The Jupyter Interactive Widget Ecosystem tutorial (with Matt Craig, Sylvain Corlay, and Maarten Breddels), Scipy 2018, Jul 2018.
Project Jupyter (Tools Plenary Session), Scipy 2018, Jul 2018.
Co-chaired Data Visualization session with Chelsea Douglas, Scipy 2018, Jul 2018.
JupyterLab Tutorial (with Matthias Bussonnier), JupyterCon 2018, Aug 2018.

Project Jupyter (with Sylvain Corlay), Data Driven NYC #52, Jan 2017.
JupyterLab Lightning Talk, Scipy 2017, Jul 2017.
Co-led Jupyter Widgets Birds of a Feather, Scipy 2017, Jul 2017.
The Jupyter Interactive Widget Ecosystem tutorial (with Matt Craig and Sylvain Corlay), Scipy 2017, Jul 2017.
JupyterLab, Building Blocks for Interactive Computing (with Jessica Forde), Strata Data Conference (New York), Sep 2017.
Jupyter widgets tutorial: Interactive controls for Jupyter (with Sylvain Corlay), JupyterCon 2017, Aug 2017.
JupyterLab tutorial (with Steven Silvester), JupyterCon 2017, Aug 2017.
Interview with Paco Nathan, JupyterCon 2017, Aug 2017.
Jupyter Widgets, Earth Science Information Partners Tech Dive, Nov 2017.
Ipyleaflet Mini-Hack Session, Earth Science Information Partners Tech Dive, Dec 2017.

SageMathCloud - Mathematical Computing in the Cloud, PyDataNYC Meetup, Aug 2015.
A Career in Computers, BYU Careers Math Colloquium, Nov 2015.
Interview about using SageMath in teaching, Nov 2015.

Sage mathematics software in the classroom, AMS/MAA Joint Math Meetings, Baltimore, MD, Jan 2014
Advanced IPython Notebook Widgets, PyData NYC 2014, Nov 2014. Abstract

Invited teaching talk: “The Sage Cell Server: embedding live computations in web pages”, AMS/MAA Joint Meetings, San Diego, CA, Jan 2013. I also helped present a poster on UTMOST at the NSF poster session.
Invited research talk: “Bounds on maximum nullity”, AMS Central Section, Ames, IA, April 2013.
Invited teaching talk, “The Sage Cell server and other technology in teaching”, International Linear Algebra Society, Providence, RI, June 2013.
Invited technical talk and funded participant, “State of the Sage Cell Server”, Sage Days 48, Seattle, WA, June 2013.
Co-organizer, invited teaching talks, and funded participant: “Sage Cell Server” (with Ira Hanson, Steven Johnson, Alex Kramer, Byron Varberg) and “Introduction to Interacts”, Sage Education Days 5, Seattle, WA, June 2013.

Invited research talk: “Computing inertia sets of graphs using variations of zero forcing”, AMS/MAA Joint Meetings, Boston, MA, Jan 2012. I also helped present a poster on UTMOST at the NSF poster session.
Co-organizer and funded participant: Sage Days 35.5, Wenham, MA, Jan 2012.
Invited teaching talk: “Free open-source software and textbooks for mathematics”, Drake DUSCI Colloquium Series, April 2012.
Invited technical talk and funded participant: “State of the Notebook”, Sage Days 41, Seattle, WA, June 2012.
Invited teaching talk and funded participant: “Sage Single Cell Server”, Sage Education Days 4, Seattle, WA, June 2012.
Co-organizer, Contributed teaching workshop: “An introduction to Sage” (with Theron Hitchman), MAA Iowa Section Meeting, Indianola, IA, Oct 2012.
Contributed teaching talk: “Lights Out!”, Drake Math Club talk, Oct 2012.

Contributed teaching talk: “Eigenvalues first? Teaching linear algebra with computation, then application, then theory” (slides), and poster for UTMOST grant in CCLI grant poster session, AMS/MAA Joint Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Jan 2011.
Invited research talk and funded participant: “Single-cell Notebook Server”, Sage Days 31, Seattle, WA, June 2011.
Invited teaching talk and funded participant: “Numerical Analysis in Sage”, Sage Education Days 3, Seattle, WA, June 2011.
Organizer for Sage exhibit booth; contributed teaching talk: “Sage: free open-source math software”, MAA Mathfest, Lexington, KY, August 2011. I also gave several presentations from the Sage booth on using Sage in different classes.
Contributed teaching talk: “Free Online Homework with Webwork”, MAA Iowa Sectional Meeting, Pella, IA, October 2011.

Contributed teaching talk: “SageTeX” (slides), MAA Iowa Sectional Meeting, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, 2010.

Contributed teaching talk: “Online Interactive Worksheets with Sage”, MAA Mathfest, Portland, OR, Aug 2009.
Invited teaching talk and funded participant: “Sage and Multivariable Calculus”, Sage Education Day 1, Clay Mathematics Institute, Boston, MA, Dec 2009.
Invited research talk and funded participant: “Computing bounds for minimum rank with Sage”, Banff International Research Center, Banff, Canada, Jan 2010.
Invited teaching talk: “SageTeX”, BYU faculty teaching seminar, Mar 2010.
Invited research talk: “Computation of Minimum Rank”, AMS Central Section Meeting, April 2010.
Contributed teaching talk: “SageTeX”, MAA Iowa Section Meeting, Oct 2010.

Invited research talk: “The Minimum Rank Problem for Finite Fields” (slides), Rocky Mountain Discrete Math Days, August 2005.
Invited research talk: “The Minimum Rank Problem for Finite Fields” (slides), AMS Central Section Meeting, Lincoln, NE, Oct 2005.
Contributed talk: “Graph Database” (slides, questions), MAA Mathfest, Albequerque, NM, Aug 2005.

Workshop: “Perfect Sequences of mth Roots of Unity“ (presentation, program code, documentation using noweb), Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Graduate Student Workshop, Summer 2002.

Here are some other conferences in which I participated.