Dalton Sconce

About

Thu, 28 May 2020 18:21:38 -0400

Who am I?

I’m a fifth year graduate student at Indiana University, working with Professor Dylan Thurston and currently a visiting graduate student at Boston College. Outside of math, I also have interests in an eclectic assortment of interests ranging from classical Latin epic and lyric poetry and history to playing table top games.

Research Interests

In a few words: I like studying how the “geometry” (that is, rigid ideas like length, area, curvature, etc.), of a space changes as I stretch, bend, fold, or twist it. For example, if I take a balloon and draw on it before I blow it up, the shape that said drawing has after I blow it up has changed — it might be longer, look stretched out, something like that. The space hasn’t fundamentally changes, but something about it has. That’s the space I like to work in.

Wait ... were you at?

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Here is a list of conferences/workshops I’ve been to/places you may have run into me¹, updated as of November 29, 2025.

2023

Midwest topology & geometry conference @ University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

2024

Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference @ Michigan State University
Topology Fest @ Cornell University

2025

Bloomington Geometry Workshop @ Indiana University Bloomington
Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference @ Indiana University Bloomington²
Mapping Class Groups and Beyond @ Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Early Career in Complex Dynamics @ Indiana University Bloomington
SLMath Summer School in Geometry Structures in Low-Dimensional Topology @ SLMath
Gatsby @ Yale

Complete to the best of my memory. ↩︎

Paper(s), talk(s), and conferences

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Preprints

Tambara-Yamagami Categories over the Reals: The Non-Split Case (doi,arXiv)

Conferences/Workshops Spoken at or organized

GSTGC ‘24 — Student speaker, attendee
GSTGC ‘25 — Organizer

Talks

Why do we care about Geodesic Currents?, Graduate Student Geometry and Topology conference, April 2024

Why Linux, Why Arch?

Thu, 28 May 2020 20:44:30 -0400

Intro

That’s a confusing title, isn’t it? I have debated making these separate posts, but in the end I felt like there was an awful lot, so in the end they ended up being the same post, oh well, sue me. Note: When I say Linux I mean “the family of operating systems which use the Linux Kernel”. I know that there is a difference but frankly “GNU/Linux Operating System” is too much of a mouth-full and we as a species use synecdoche a lot so I don’t feel that bad saying it.

Installing Wireguard on a Rasbperry Pi 3 Running Octoprint and Windows

Thu, 28 May 2020 15:28:19 -0400

First Things First – What’s the Point?

Why would you want to setup wireguard in the first place? Simply put – it makes life easier. What wireguard is a VPN, what this means it that it allows you to open up a secure tunnel through the internet from one point to another. Think of it like a concrete tunnel running through the ocean– no one can see into the tunnel, and you are protected from all of the sharks. A vpn is really the only secure way to connect to something which is on your home network when you are not on your home network, as the only hole it opens up in your network is protected by crypographic keys, which, until everyone has a quantum computer, is virtually uncrackable. Thus this allows you to access you Octoprint setup from anywhere in the world without having a hole in your network a country mile wide.