| 2025September 25th, at LiT III Living in Topology: Monodromies and visual primeness. April 8th, at the Algebra and Geometry seminar of Neuchâtel: The joy of not being a PID. 2024July 18th, at the Oberseminar Topologie in Bochum: Khovanov homology: combinatorial definition, geometric applications. June 27th, at the Low-dimensional topology seminar at MPIM Bonn: Homogeneous braids are visually prime. 2023April 27th, at the Séminaire de Topologie et Géométrie in Geneva: Untwisting and surfaces in 4-space. February 27th – March 3, at the Baby geometri seminar in Pisa: Minicourse An introduction to Khovanov homology and its applications. February 2nd, at the Kepler Kolloquium in Regensburg: Untwisting and surfaces in 4-space. January 24th, at the Oberwolfach Workshop "Morphisms in Low Dimensions": The joy of not being a PID. 2022December 21st, at the Oberseminar Geometrie in Fribourg: Unknotting, untwisting and surfaces in 4-space. December 15th, at the Zurich Topology Seminar: Rasmussen invariants of Whitehead doubles and other satellites. December 8th, at the Kolloquium of the Graduiertenkolleg 2491 Fourier Analysis and Spectral Theory in Göttingen: On Khovanov homology: a combinatorial construction with geometric applications. October 25th, at the BIRS Workshop about Using Quantum Invariants to do Interesting Topology in Oaxaca: Rasmussen invariants of Whitehead doubles and other satellites.  Video. May 18th, at the Georgia Topology Conference in Athens (I'll attend online): Khovanov homology and rational unknotting.  Video. February 8th, at Notre Dame Topology Seminar: Khovanov homology and rational unknotting. February 3rd, at the conference Recent developments in link homology theories at the SwissMAP Research Station: Khovanov homology and rational unknotting. January 12th, at Oberseminar Globale Analysis of the University of Regensburg:Khovanov homology and rational unknotting.
 2021March 25th, at the informal weekly LKS seminar: Sperner's lemma. March 19th, at a block seminar on 3-manifolds organized by Raphael Zentner: Murasugi sums and fibered links (talk shared with Filip Misev). March 9th, at a weekly online seminar on 4-manifolds of the MPIM Bonn: S-equivalence of matrices and isometries of linking forms (talk shared with Anthony Conway). 2020December 21st, at the HIOB seminar of the Regensburg SFB: Khovanov homology: a combinatorial tool with geometric applications. December 15th, at a weekly online seminar on 4-manifolds of the MPIM Bonn: Various characterizations of the Z-slice genus. May 29th, at the CIRGET Geometry and Topology Seminar: Squeezed knots.  Video. April 16th, at the [K-OS] Knot Online Seminar: Unknotting and cobordism distances.  Video. 2019October 24th, at the Kepler Kolloquium in Regensburg:Quantum invariants, knot concordance and unknotting.
 September 16th, at the Workshop on 4-manifolds at the MPIM:Untwisting torus knots.
 June 18th, at the conference Knot concordance and low-dimensional manifolds in Le Croisic:Concordance and Khovanov-Rozansky homologies.
 May 9th, at the workshop at Matemale:Bridge trisections of knotted surfaces in S^4 (on the paper by Meier and Zupan).
 April 16th, at the Topology Seminar of the IMJ in Paris:Unknotting and Surfaces.
 February 18th, at the Mathematical Colloquium of Bern:Unknotting and Surfaces.
 January 18th, at the Institut Fourier, Grenoble:Linking pairings and unknotting numbers.
 2018November 27th, at the Topology Seminar at the Math Institute of the University of Bonn:Linking pairings and unknotting numbers.
 November 13th, at the Seminar Algebra and Geometry of the University of Basel:Positivity, Graphs and Unknotting.
 April 27th, at the Knot theory seminar at Warsaw University:Genus and Unknotting.
 April 17th, at the Seminar of the SFB Higher Invariants at Regensburg:Balanced unknotting, Blanchfield form, and surfaces in 3- and 4-space.
 March 15th, at the Boston College Geometry/Topology seminar:Balanced unknotting, Blanchfield form, and surfaces in 3- and 4-space.
 March 7th, at the conference Quantum Knot Homology and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories at the Aspen Center for Physics:Upsilon-like invariants from Khovanov-Rozansky sl(n) homologies.
 2017November 27th, at the Séminaire Géométrie, Dynamique et Topologie of the Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille:L'homologie de Khovanov-Rozansky entre les nœuds positifs et négatifs.
 November 24th, at the Séminaire Topologies of the Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck:Graphes planaires et clôtures de tresses positives.
 June 27th, at the workshop Quantum topology and categorified representation theory at the
Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge:An Upsilon-like invariant from Khovanov-Rozansky homology.
  Video. April 27th, at the Séminaire de Topologie et Géométrie in Geneva:L'homologie de Khovanov-Rozansky entre les nœuds positifs et négatifs.
 April 5th, at the University of Zurich:Khovanov-Rozansky homology in between positive and negative knots.
 March 27th, at the Séminaire quantique in Strasbourg:Khovanov-Rozansky homology in between positive and negative knots.
 February 16th, at the seminar of the programme Homology theories in low dimensional topology at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge:The Seifert form's optimal bounds for slice genera.
  Video. 2016October 26th, at the Seminar on knot concordance and 4-manifolds of the
Topology Trimester at the HIM (Bonn):Slice genus bounds from the Seifert form.
 May 4th, at Oberseminar Globale Analysis of the University of Regensburg:Seifert Form and Slice Genus of Knots.
 February 23rd, at the BIRS Workshop about Synchronizing Smooth and Topological 4-Manifolds in Banff:Upper bounds for the topological slice genus of knots.
  Video. 2015September 15th, at the Topology Seminar of the IMJ in Paris:Théorie des nombres et genre slice topologique des nœuds.
 June 13th, at the special session
Categorification of Quantum groups, Representations and Knot Invariants of the
Joint AMS-EMS-SPM meeting in Porto:New quantum obstructions to sliceness.
 April 28th, at the Zurich Graduate Colloquium:What is... a knot's slice genus?
 April 15th, at the Seminar "Quantum Groups and Low-Dimensional Topology" of the University Zurich:Khovanov-Rozansky homologies with non-standard potentials.
 2014November 19th, at the Colloquium of Tohoku University:The asymptotic slice genus of alternating knots.
 September 22nd, at the Mathematical Colloquium of Bern:Quantum obstructions to sliceness of knots.
 September 19th, at the Knot Theory Session-Symposium of the DMV-PTM Joint Meeting in Poznań:Khovanov-Rozansky homologies induce non-additive four-ball genus bounds.
 September 17th, at the Oberwolfach Workshop "Topologie":Khovanov-Rozansky homologies induce non-additive four-ball genus bounds.
 July 2nd, in Regensburg:Neue Schranken für das vierdimensionale Geschlecht.
 June 19th, at the Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne:De nouvelles obstructions quantiques au genre slice des nœuds.
 May 22nd, at the MPI-Oberseminar:New quantum obstructions to sliceness.
 April 28th, at the Oberseminar Topologie of the WWU Münster:New quantum obstructions to smooth sliceness of knots.
 January 21st, at the Topology Seminar of the George Washington University:More on Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 January 19th, at Knots in Washington XXXVII:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 January 8th, at the Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces, Aarhus:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 2013November 28th, at the University of Geneva Séminaire de Topologie et Géométrie:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 November 6th, at the Topology Reading Group, Durham:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 November 8th, at the London Topology and Geometry Seminar:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 October 24th, at the Boston College Geometry/Topology seminar:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 October 22th, at the UC Davis Geometry/Topology seminar:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 October 22th, at the UC Davis Student-Run Geometry/Topology seminar:An introduction to the Khovanov-Rozansky homologies.
 October 20th, at the Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 October 17th, at Stony Brook's Thursday Topology Seminar:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 October 14th, at an informal seminar at Columbia University:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 September 26th, at the University of Zurich:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 June 17th, at the Pure Maths Colloquium, Durham:Knot concordance, slice-torus homomorphisms and the Khovanov-Rozansky homologies.
 June 5, at the Workshop on "Geometry and topology of smooth 4-manifolds", Bonn:Distinguishing the Khovanov-Rozansky knot concordance invariants.
 May 6th, at the Université catholique de Louvain:The Rasmussen and other slice-torus knot concordance invariants.
 April 26th, at Young Topology Meeting:Knot Concordance.
 April 5th, at Swiss Knots:The Khovanov-Rozansky concordance invariants.
 2012October 8th, in the working group TQFT et catégorification (IMJ):Les bornes au genre lisse fournies par les homologies sl(n) sont distinctes.
 February 29th, at the winterschool of la Llagonne, together with Pierre Dehornoy:L'espace de Teichmüller et sa compactification.
 February 6th, at the conference Topologie quantique et catégorification at the CIRM:
  -link homology and a Lower Bound for the Slice Genus and 
  -link homology of Knotted Webs and of their Branched Klein-Coverings. 2011March, at the winterschool of la Llagonne:Des nouvelles manières de calculer l'invariant de concordance de Rasmussen.
 2010December 9th, in an informal seminar (IMJ):Qu'est-ce qu'une suite spectrale?
 October 11th, in the working group TQFT et Catégorification:Calcul de l'homologie de Khovanov et de l'invariant de Rasmussen.
 April 15th, in an informal seminar (IMJ):La sphère de Poincaré.
 March 3rd and 4th, together with Louis-Hadrien Robert and Christian Blanchet, at the winterschool of la Llagonne:Topological moduli spaces of knots about Allen Hatcher's draft of the same name.
 February 22nd, in the working group Algèbre et Topologie quantiques:Représentation de
  sur la 2-catégorie des drapeaux
about §6 of the paper of Khovanov and Lauda, see below. February 15th, in the working group Algèbre et Topologie quantiques:Cohomologie des variétés de drapeaux à n pas
about §5 of Khovanov and Lauda's paper A diagrammatic approach to categorification of quantum groups III.
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