Talks and presentations

Simulation classes and aperiodicity

May 20, 2025

Talk, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA

I gave this talk at BLAST 2025. I spoke about my PhD research exploring an open problem originally posed by Joel VanderWerf. You can find the slides from my talk here.

Schützenberger’s Theorem: First-order definability of regular languages

October 28, 2024

Talk, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CAN

I gave this talk for the McMaster-Waterloo Joint Model Theory Seminar. I introduced some basic background in the theory of formal languages and presented a proof of Schützenberger’s Theorem which demonstrates that a regular string language is first-order definable if and only if it is definable by a star-free regular expression.