• Crossing Changes and knot invariants (Sketchy notes)

  • Jones polynomials and hyperbolic geometry

  • Polynomials invariants for links in 3-manifolds: Part1, Part2

  • Polyhedral decompositions, essential surfaces and colored Jones knot polynomials

  • Cosmetic crossing changes on knots.

  • Geometric types of surfaces and Jones polynomial (Vietnam: First of 2 talks; second given by Futer.)

  • Incompressible surfaces and Jones polynomial (Italy, summer 2013)

  • Geometric structures and Knot invariants (AMS Invited Address)

  • Invariants of Knots Theory and their Connections Talk aimed at graduate students, given at Redbud Topology Conference (Spring 2015).

  • Crosscap numbers and relations to other knot invariants (Turkey, Summer 2015).

  • Properties of the Degree of the Colored Jones Polynomial (Knots in the Triangle, NC, Spring 2016).

  • Geometric Estimates from spanning surfaces of knots (Knots in Hellas, Greece, July 2016).

  • Normal and Jones surfaces (AMS meeting, Hunter College, NYC, May 2017).

  • Geometric structure of 3-manifolds and quantum invariants (Colloquium: ETH/Zurich, EKPA/Athens, APTH/Thessalonikh, June 2017).

  • On the growth of Turaev-Viro 3-manifold invariants (Redbud Topology Conference, OSU, April 2018).

  • Asymptotic behavior of quantum representations Classical and Quantum 3-Manifold Topology, Monash University, Australia, December 17-21, 2018)

  • Colored Jones polynomials (survey talk for graduate students) (AMS Spring Meeting Hartford, CT, April 13-14, 2019).

  • Asymptotic behavior of quantum representations (Quantum Topology and Hyperbolic Geometry, Da Nang, Vietnam, May 27-31, 2019/ New Developments in Quantum Topology, University of California, Berkeley, June 3-7, 2019)

  • Geometric structures of 3-manifolds and quantum invariants (Colloquium, UVirginia, Rutgers, Fall 2019)

  • Quantum representations and geometry of mapping class groups (UPenn, CUNY, Rutgers, UC Riverside..)

  • Topology and Geometry of quantum invariants: open problems (Connections for Women: Quantum Symmetries, MSRI, January 2020.)

  • Jones diameter and crossing number (SS Recent Advances in LDT, 2021 Fall Southeastern Virtual Sectional Meeting, Nov. 20-21.)

  • Jones diameter and crossing number (73rd BMC: Geometry workshop, Kings College, London, UK, June 6-9, 2022.)

  • Pants graph, TQFT and hyperbolic geometry (Quantum Topology and Geometry conference in the honor of Vladimir Turaev, IHP, Paris June 13-17, 2022.)

  • Geometric structures of 3-manifolds and quantum invariants (Second Congress of Greek Mathematicians SCGM-2022 at NTUA, Athens July 4-8, 2022.) [Colloquium type talk. Variation of talk with same tittle above]