My papers and preprints:

7. Joint with Feng Luo, in preparation.

6. Joint with Julien Roger, " The Skein Algebra of Arcs and Links and the Decorated Teichmuller Space", submitted.

5. " A Deformation of Penner's Simplicial Coordinate", J. Differential Geom. 89(2011) no.3, 529-551.

4. " On the Hyperbolic Gluing Equations and Representations of Fundamental Groups of Closed 3-Manifolds".

3. Joint with Feng Luo and Stephan Tillmann, " Thurston's Spinning Construction and Solutions to the Hyperbolic Gluing Equations for Closed Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds", to appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.

2. Joint with Feng Luo and Thomas Kwok-Keung Au, "Lectures on the Mapping Class Group of a Surface", in Transformation Groups and Moduli Spaces of Curves, ALM 16, International Press, 2010.

1. " A Batalin-Vilkovisky Algebra Structure on the Hochschild Cohomology of Truncated Polynomials".

My recent talks:

2012

May 25-27, invited speaker, 2012 Lehigh University Geometry and Topology Conference, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.

February 7, seminar talk, Geometry and Topology Seminar, Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, NY.

January 24, seminar talk, Geometry-Topology Seminar, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

2011

December 9, seminar talk, "A deformation of Penner's Simplicial Coordinate," Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar, Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, NY.

December 2-4, Distinguished Graduate Student Speaker (50 minutes), Knots in Washington XXXIII, George Washington University, Washington DC. A POSTER of my talk.

November 4, seminar talk, "The Skein Algebra of Punctured Surfaces," Geometry and Topology Seminar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

November 2, seminar talk, Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

November 1, seminar talk, Topology Seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.

March 24-27, invited speaker, The Triennial Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, Rice University, Houston, TX.

March 14-16, invited speaker, "A Deformation of Penner's Coordinate of the Decorated Teichmuller Space," Graduate Student and Post-Doc Workshop on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

2010

May 22-23, invited speaker, "On the Hyperbolic Gluing Equations and Representations of Fundamental Groups of Closed $3$-Manifolds," AMS 2010 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links, and 3-Manifolds.

2008

July 28, seminar talk, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

2007

December 8-10, invited speaker, "A BV structure on the Hochschild cohomology of truncated polynomials," CMS Winter 2007 Meeting, Homotopy Theory Session.