Conference Talks:

• “Ranks of abelian varieties over infinite extensions of the rationals”, 10/11/08, AMS Sectional Meeting, special session on number theory, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
• “Bounds for the torsion of elliptic curves over extensions with bounded ramification”, 10/11/08, (work presented by coauthor, Benjamin Lundell), AMS Sectional Meeting, special session on number theory, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
• "Trivial bounds and elliptic curves of maximal rank", 7/12/2006, CNTA IX, Vanc., BC.
• "Trivial bounds and elliptic curves of maximal rank", 4/22/2006, AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting, Durham, NH.
• "Sobre unidades elípticas y representaciones p-ádicas de Galois", 7/1/2005, Primeras Jornadas de Teoria de Numeros, Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain.
• “Elliptic Units and Galois Representations”, 12/11/2004, at the Canadian Mathematical Society - Winter Meeting, Arithmetic Geometry Session.

Talks (Outside of UConn):

• “Bounds on the torsion subgroup of an elliptic curve”, 10/24/2008, Five College Algebra Seminar.
• “Master Leonardo Bigollo and an unsolved 2000-year-old problem”, 2/4/2008, Merrimack College.
• “Bernoulli-Hurwitz numbers and Galois representations”, 3/19/2007, Boston University Algebra Seminar. Notes for the talk.
  
• “Cotas triviales y curvas elipticas de rango maximal”, 12/12/2005, Seminario de Algebra, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
• “Elliptic Units and Galois Representations”, 9/18/2004, Brown.
• “Elliptic Units and Galois Representations”, 12/08/2003, Stanford University.

• “Elliptic Units and Galois Representations”, 11/18/2003, Amherst College (Five Colleges Number Theory Seminar).

Talks (at UConn):

• "The Bridge between Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms", 3/18/09, SIGMA Seminar.
  
• “UConn's Quantitative Learning Center: Research and Future Directions”, 2/18/09, CRME Seminar.
• “Peer Tutoring at the Quantitative Learning Center”, 2/11/09, CRME Seminar.
• “Master Leonardo ''Bigollo'' and a 2000-year old unsolved problem”, Math Club, 10/22/08.
• "Ranks of elliptic curves over infinite extensions of the rationals", Algebra Seminar, 9/30/08.
  
• "Bounds on the torsion subgroup of an elliptic curve", Algebra Seminar, 9/23/08
  

Conferences attended:

• AMS Sectional Meeting, special session on number theory, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, October 2008. 
• Summer School in Iwasawa Thy., Canada, August 2007 
• Seg. Jornadas de T. de Numeros, Spain, July 2007
• International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, August 2006
• Canadian Number Theory Assoc. IX Meet., July 2006
• AMS Eastern Section, Durham, NH, April 2006
• Primeras Jornadas de Teoria de Numeros, Spain, July 2005
• Canadian Math. Assoc. Winter meetings, December 2004
• Brown Number Theory Workshop, April 2003
• Arizona Winter School, March 2002 Topic: Periods
• NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conf., August 2002 Topic: Modular Elliptic Curves in Orlando, Florida
• CBMS Regional Research Conference, June 2002 Topic: N-body problem Eastern Illinois Univ., IL
• Arizona Winter School March 2001 Topic:Modular Forms.