Presentations
I very much enjoy speaking about mathematics. Below is a selection of colloquia, seminar talks, conference presentations and posters, mini-courses, and outreach talks I have given.
Colloquia
- 2024: Complexity and geometry of aperiodic systems, University of Sheffield, UK.
- 2021: Expansions of real numbers, University of St Andrews, UK.
- 2020: Continuity of diffraction, The Open University, UK.
- 2017: Regularity of aperiodic subshifts, Durham University, UK.
- 2015: Differentials on fractals, California Polytechnic State University, USA.
- 2013: The α–Farey transfer operator, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
- 2013: Dynamics of Lorenz maps, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland.
Seminars
- 2024: Rauzy fractals of random substitutions, University of Glasgow, UK.
- 2024: Complexity and geometry of Sturmians and substitutions, University of Manchester, UK.
- 2024: From Sturmians to random substitutions, University of Exeter, UK.
- 2023: β-shifts with a hole, University of Bristol, UK.
- 2022: Winning sets, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands.
- 2020: Diffraction of return time measures, University of Oxford, UK.
- 2019: Complexity of aperiodic sequences, University of Warwick, UK.
- 2019: Continued fractions and β-expansions, Durham University, UK.
- 2019: A tail of two expansions, Loughborough University, UK.
- 2018: A classification of intermediate β–transformations, The Ohio State University, USA.
- 2018: A wander in the space of β-transformations, Durham University, UK.
- 2016: Aperiodic sequences and Jarnìk sets, Universität Jena, Germany.
- 2016: Quasicrystals, Jarník sets and spectral metrics, UC Riverside, USA.
- 2013: The α–Farey transfer operator, South China University of Technology, China.
- 2013: Dynamics of Lorenz maps, University College Dublin, Ireland.
- 2011: Spectral metrics for Gibbs states, University of Wollongong, Australia.
- 2011: Gibbs measures in noncommutative geometry, University of Manchester, UK.
- 2009: Fractals in noncommutative geometry, Imperial College London, UK.
Presentations at scientific meetings
- 2024: Complexity and geometry of aperiodic systems: Rauzy Fractals and Rauzy measures, Random Substitutions (workshop), Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille, Luminy, France.
- 2024: From Sturmians to random substitutions and their Rauzy fractals, Fractals and Stochastics 7 (conference), Chemnitz (Saxony), Germany.
- 2024: Aperiodic sequences: Complexity and Rauzy fractals, Numeration (conference), Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands.
- 2022: Numbers badly approximable by rationals in non-integer bases, Analysis, Probability, and Mathematical Physics on Fractals (conference), Cornell University, USA.
- 2017: A meander through the space of intermediate β–transformations, Fractal Geometry and Dynamics (research program), Institut Mittag–Leffler, Sweden.
- 2014: Convergence to equilibrium in α–Farey systems, Dynamical Systems and Dimension Theory (workshop), Wöltingerode, Germany.
- 2014: Intermediate β–shifts of finite type, Fractals and Stochastics V (conference), Tabarz, Germany.
- 2013: The α–Farey transfer operator, AMS Western Fall Sectional Meeting, UC Riverside, USA.
- 2012: Dynamics of Lorenz maps, Skew Product Dynamical Systems and Multifractal Analysis (workshop), Luisenthal, Germany.
- 2012: Spectral metrics for Gibbs states, Ergodic Methods in Dynamics (conference), Banach Center, Będlewo, Poland.
- 2010: Multifractals and spectral triples, Fractals in Deterministic and Random Dynamics (workshop), IMPAN, Warsaw, Poland.
Poster presentations
- 2024: Dimensions of infinitely generated self-affine sets, Sven van Golden, Charlene Kalle, Sabrina Kombrink and Tony Samuel. Fractal Geometry and Stochastics 7, Chemnitz (Saxony), Germany.
- 2024: Exploring the morphology of mitochondria in breast cancer cells through fractal analysis in fluorescence imaging, Devi Fitri Ferdania, Kiran Dhillon, Sabrina Kombrink, Tony Samuel and Fabian Spill. MitOX 2024, Nuffield Department Women’s and Reproductive Health, UK.
- 2018: The Sierpiński gasket as the Martin boundary of a non–isotropic Markov chain, Marc Kesseböhmer, Tony Samuel and Karenina Sender. Fractal Geometry and Stochastics 6, Bad Herrenalb, Germany.
- 2018: Continuity of entropy for Lorenz maps, Zoe Cooperband, Erin Pearse, Blaine Quackenbush, Jordan Rowley, Tony Samuel and Matt West. Joint Mathematical Meetings, San Diego, USA.
Graduate mini-courses
- 2018: Fractals as Martin boundaries, South China University of Technology, China.
- 2016: Aperiodic order and dynamical systems, Universität Bremen, Germany.
- 2016: An introduction to dimension theory, Fractal Geometry and Complex Dimensions (summer school), California Polytechnic State University, USA.
- 2010: Noncommutative geometry: infinitesimals, measurability and dimension, Fractals and Operators (winter school), Siegmundsburg, Germany.
Outreach and pedagogy
- 2023: Mathematics and music, University of Birmingham, UK.
- 2022: 123Go! A Digital Analogue to Think-Pair-Share, University of Birmingham, UK.
- 2020: From JNU to UoB on a stack of books, Jinan-Birmingham Joint Institute, China.