Talks and things I have done relatively recently:

• Second UConn Workshop on Stress and Accent, University of Connecticut, Dec. 2011. Classifying Stress Patterns by Cognitive Complexity Slides (123KB).
• Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Delaware, Nov. 2010. Cognitive Complexity of Phonological Patterns Slides (353KB).
• Artificial Grammar Learning Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL, (2010). Cognitive Complexity of Linguistic Patterns Slides (595KB).
• UCLA Linguistics (2010), where I gave a colloquium Cognitive Complexity in the Sub-Regular Realm Slides (595KB) and a Mathematical Linguistics seminar On Formalizing Syntax Slides (379KB).
• 48th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Uppsala, Sweden, 2010. Estimating Strictly Piecewise Distributions (136KB) with Jeff Heinz, U. Delaware.
• Characterizing Human Language by Structural Complexity (CHLaSC), Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin. Formal Issues in the Design and Interpretation of Artificial Grammar Learning Experiments Slides (186KB)
• Eleventh Meeting on Mathematics of Language (Bielefeld, Germany) at which I presented a paper On Languages Piecewise Testable in the Strict Sense jointly authored with Jeff Heinz (U. Delaware) and a host of Earlham undergrads.
• European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2007 http://www.cs.tcd.ie/esslli2007 6–17 August, 2007 in Dublin, Ireland
  
  • at which I taught a course Formal Description of Syntax Reader(529KB) Slides(621KB)
  • and jointly organized a workshop Model-Theoretic Syntax at 10 (MTS@10)
• Tenth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (UCLA)
  • at which I presented a paper Aural Pattern Recognition Experiments and the Subregular Hierarchy jointly authored with Geoff Pullum (U. Edinburgh, UK)
  • and co-authored another with Stephan Kepser (U. Tuebingen, DE) The Equivalence of Tree Adjoining Grammars and Monadic Linear Context-Free Tree Grammars
• Recursion in Human Languages Conference, Illinois State University, at which I presented a paper, co-authored with Marc Hauser (Harvard U., USA), Potential Distinguishing Characteristics of Human Aural Pattern Recognition Slides (137KB)
• 2005-2006 Academic Year-Sabbatical. Jeanne Rosselet Fellow Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
• The International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications at Rovira i Virgili University, Taragona, Spain, in which I taught an annual one-week module on Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG) for several years
• MoL, The Association for Mathematics of Language of which I'm a past President. (Go figure.)