Selected talks
These are talks or seminars for which I happen to have overheads in electronic form. Those marked ♦ are NOT suitable for printing because they use the latex 'pause' or 'beamer' package and may have many pages.
Research seminars
- Group automorphisms from a dynamical point of view (BMC Leicester, April 20, 2011)
- Conversations between ergodic theory and number theory♦ (printable version, Bridging the Gaps Workshop, QMUL, October 30, 2009) Dynamical properties of commuting automorphisms (series of lectures for the Summer School on Dynamical Systems and Number Theory, Graz July 9-13, 2007)
- Entropy in algebraic dynamics♦ (printable version, University of Loughborough, 10 November 2006)
- Periodic points detect subdynamics in rank one♦ (printable version, University of Warwick, 25 April 2006)
- Orbit-counting in non-hyperbolic arithmetic dynamical systems♦ (UK-Japan Winter School, Bury St Edmonds, 12 January 2006)
- Why Mahler measures arise in dynamics♦ (printable version, Mahler Measure in Mobile, 6 January 2006)
- Disjointness and entropy geometry (Univ. of Maryland, Spring Dynamics meeting, 19 March 2005; Princeton University 22 March 2005)
- Topological rigidity on connected groups (Princeton University, 15 March 2005; Penn State, 16 March 2005; Warwick University 24 May 2005)
- Heights and highly effective Zsigmondy theorems (SECANTS, Royal Holloway, 5 March 2005; Delft University/Inter-City Number Theory Seminar, 21 October 2005)
- Orbit counting without hyperbolicity (MPI Bonn, July 2004)
- Mixing and Diophantine problems (University of Kent 23 February 2004; Leicester 18 March 2004; QMUL 11 May 2004)
General audience talks
- Never gamble with a mathematician (Science Lecture for Children, UEA, 26/9/2009)
- Euler's miraculous mathematics of the infinite♦ (printable version, accompanying film clip and GP-Pari commands; 2007 Mathematical Association 6th Form Lecture, November 14 2007, UEA)
- Can Santa add up? (UEA Christmas Lecture for Children, December 9 2006; best viewed in OpenOffice)
- Continued Fractions♦ (printable version, NCC Head of Mathematics Conference 2006 Park Farm Hotel, Norwich, 8 March 2006)
- 14th Century planetary orbits to 21st Century number theory: what is ergodic theory?♦ (printable version, UEA, 29 November 2005)
- The remarkable arithmetic of recurrence sequences (Mathematical Association meeting, 11 May 2005)
- The beauty of Mathematics (Cinema City Norwich, 23 June 2002, pdf)
- Fibonacci numbers and periodic points (Mathematical Association meeting, 4 July 2002, needs IE6.0)
