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HST's view of the Ant Nebula

UPCOMING TRAVEL
2023-07: KASC/TASC Meeting, Manoa, HI


PRESENTATIONS
I try to upload as many of my talks as possible to Speaker Deck:

Stellar Autopsies from White Dwarf Pulsations
November 2022, KITP Conference: White Dwarfs from Physics to Astrophysics, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (invited talk)
   Webcast

Emerging thoughts on the new class of DAHe white dwarfs
October 2022, KITP Program on White Dwarfs, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
   Webcast

Searching for signposts of failed white dwarf supernovae
October 2022, University of Hawaii IfA Colloquium, Manoa, HI, USA
   Webcast

Tuning white dwarf clocks with space-based asteroseismology
July 2022, TASC6/KASC13 Workshop, Leuven, Blegium (invited talk)
   Webcast

Pre- and post- hot subdwarfs with uncommon core masses
June 2022, 10th Meeting on Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects, Liege, Blegium

Searching for signposts of failed white dwarf supernovae
April 2022, Pitt/CMU Colloquium, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Using data outliers to find planets around dead stars
January 2022, Statistically Speaking, Cary, NC, USA (Remote)
   Webcast (joint with Dr. Katie Mack)

Searching for signposts of failed white dwarf supernovae
October 2021, MIT Astrophysics Colloquium, Cambridge, MA, USA

What White Dwarfs Reveal About Rocky Exoplanets & Exo-asteroids
April 2021, KITP Teachers' Conference: White Dwarfs as Cosmic Laboratories, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (Remote)
   Webcast

Galactic archaeology and asteroseismology of white dwarf stars
March 2021, SAC Seminar, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (Remote)

When flux standards go wild: White dwarfs in the era of space photometry
February 2020, Joint STScI/JHU Colloquium, Baltimore, MD, USA

Paparazzi lightning: 68 million images of white dwarfs from space
October 2019, White Dwarfs as probes of fundamental physics and tracers of planetary, stellar & galactic evolution, IAU Symposium 357, Hilo, HI, USA

First light on pulsating compact objects with TESS
July 2019, TESS Science Conference, Cambridge, MA, USA

A 0.3% measurement of orbital decay in the 12.75-min WD+WD J0651+2844
July 2019, The Beginnings and Ends of Double White Dwarfs, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mining the future of low-mass, core-He-burning hot subdwarfs
June 2019, 9th Meeting on Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects, Hendaye, France

Better characterizing white dwarfs to illuminate planet occurrence around intermediate-mass stars
May 2019, KITP: Planet-Star Connections, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
   Webcast

The Still-Perilous Fate of Planets and Asteroids that Survive Stellar Evolution
January 2019, Boston Area Exoplanet Science Meeting #5, Boston, MA, USA

The Menagerie of Hydrogen-Deficient White Dwarfs
September 2018, Hydrogen Deficient Stars 2018, Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK

Stellar Autopsies from White Dwarf Pulsations
September 2018, PHysics of Oscillating STars, Banyuls-sur-mer, France

Rolling in their Graves: White Dwarf Rotation as a Function of Mass
July 2018, 21st European Workshop on White Dwarfs, Austin, TX, USA

Rogue Waves from Parametric Resonance in Pulsating White Darfs
July 2018, TASC4/KASC11: TESS Asteroseismic Consortium, Aarhus, Denmark

Stellar Autopsies from White Dwarf Pulsations
May 2018, UH Institute for Astronomy Colloquium, Manoa, HI, USA

Age Calibration from Coeval White Dwarfs in K2 and TESS
January 2018, Dwarf Stars and Clusters with K2, Boston, MA, USA

Rolling in their Graves: White Dwarf Rotation as a Function of Mass
January 2018, AAS Winter Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA

The Search for Surviving Giant Planets Around White Dwarfs
December 2017, Bay Area Exoplanets Meeting, Mountain View, CA, USA

What's Shaking with Extremely Low-Mass White Dwarfs
November 2017, Joint NRAO/UVA Colloquium, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Rolling in their Graves: White Dwarf Rotation and the Endpoints of Angular Momentum Evolution
October 2017, The Ohio State University Colloquium, Columbus, OH, USA

Improved white dwarf cooling ages using asteroseismology and eclipsing binaries
September 2017, Ages^2: taking stellar ages to the next power, Isola d'Elba, Italy

Rumblings in the Stellar Graveyard: White Dwarf Pulsations with K2 and TESS
July 2017, TASC3 KASC10 Workshop, Birmingham, UK (invited talk)

Comparing the Rotation of Hot Subdwarfs with White Dwarfs and Clump Giants
July 2017, 8th Annual Hot Subdwarf Meeting, Krakow, Poland

Evidence from K2 for Rapid Rotation in the Descendant of a 4 Solar-Mass Star
June 2017, Kepler/K2 SciCon IV, NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA, USA
   Webcast

Rolling in their Graves: White Dwarf Rotation and the Endpoints of Angular Momentum Evolution
March 2017, 2017 Hubble Fellows Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA
   Webcast

When Flux Standards Go Wild: White Dwarfs in the Age of Kepler
January 2017, AAS Winter Meeting, Grapevine, TX, USA

Watching Stellar Evolution All the Way to the Closing Credits
September 2016, Understanding the roles of rotation, pulsation and chemical peculiarities in the upper main sequence, Windermere, Cumbria, UK (invited talk)

Rogue Waves on Pulsating White Dwarf Stars
April 2016, University of Toronto Colloquium, Toronto, Canada

Rogue Waves on Pulsating White Dwarf Stars
March 2016, 2016 Hubble Fellows Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA
   Webcast

K2's Revolutionary Eye on White Dwarfs
November 2015, K2 SciCon, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (invited talk)

Pulsating White Dwarfs in Kepler and K2
June 2015, KASC Eighth Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark (invited talk)

Confronting the "Extreme Planetary Systems" Claimed Around sdBVs
July 2015, Seventh Meeting on Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects, Oxford, UK

Recent Work on the Lowest-Mass White Dwarfs
November 2014, Keele University Colloquium, Keele, UK

New Light on Interior Processing of Failed Core-Collapse Supernovae
August 2014, 19th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, Montreal, Canada

The Tug of Planets or Something Else Entirely? The Cautionary Tale of GD 66
July 2014, Planetary Systems Across the HR Diagram, Cambridge, UK

Digging in the Stellar Graveyard with VST ATLAS
April 2014, VST ATLAS Workshop, Durham, UK

Kepler Asteroseismology of White Dwarf Stars
June 2013, KASC Sixth Workshop, Sydney, Australia (invited talk)

Complications to the Planetary Hypothesis for GD 66
January 2013, AAS Winter Meeting, Long Beach, CA, USA

Orbital Decay from Gravitational Wave Radiation in a 12.75-min WD+WD Binary
Oct. 2012, Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Seminar, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

Eight Years On: A Search for Planets Around Isolated White Dwarfs
Jan. 2012, Planets Around Stellar Remnants, Arecibo, Puerto Rico (invited talk)