Seminars, Colloquia, and Conference Talks

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Date Event Talk Title
14 November 2022 Texas A&M University Astronomy Seminar (Invited) The Origin of the Elements: What We Can Learn from Metal-Poor Stars
9 November 2022 Michigan State University Astronomy Seminar (Invited) The Origin of the Elements: What We Can Learn from Metal-Poor Stars
25 May 2022 2022 JINA-CEE Frontiers in Nuclear Astrophysics (Invited) Stellar Abundances
20 Apr 2022 Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam - Colloquium (Invited) The Origin of the Heavy Elements: What We Can Learn from Metal-Poor Stars
6 Apr 2022 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - NDT-NPP Seminar (Invited) Stellar Actinides as Tracers of Heavy-element Nucleosynthesis
28 Oct 2021 2021 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Symposium (Contributed) Reconstructing Neutron Star Masses from Metal-poor Stars
13 Oct 2021 2021 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics (Invited) Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics Talk: Constraining the r-process with Observation and Theory
13 Oct 2021 2021 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics (Contributed) A Nuclear Equation of State Inferred from Stellar r-process Abundances
5 Oct 2021 Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar (Invited) Stellar Actinides as Tracers of Heavy-Element Nucleosynthesis
30 Sep 2021 IReNA Origin of the Isotopes Workshop (Invited) The Production of the Heaviest Elements through the Nuclear Lens
16 Sep 2021 Yale Astronomy Seminar (Invited) Heavy-Element Nucleosynthesis in the Era of Multi-messenger Astronomy
29 Jul 2021 LANL Astrophysics Seminar (Invited) Stellar Actinides as Tracers of Heavy-Element Nucleosynthesis
28 Jul 2021 Nuclear Burning in Massive Stars (Contributed) Reconstructing Neutron Star Masses from Metal-Poor Stars
13 Jul 2021 TCAN Meeting 2021: BNS/BH-NS Merger Workshop (Invited) Observational Signatures of Heavy-Element Nucleosynthesis
29 Mar 2021 University of Victoria Physics and Astronomy Seminar (Invited) The Origin of the Heavy Elements: What We Can Learn from Metal-Poor Stars
26 Mar 2021 Texas AMU Nuclear Astrophysics Seminar Series (Invited) Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis in the Era of Multi-messenger Astronomy
19 Mar 2021 Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, Rochester Institute of Technology (Invited) The Astrophysical Production of the Heaviest Elements
22 Jan 2021 University of California Santa Cruz (Invited) The Astrophysical Production of the Heaviest Elements
9 Nov 2020 San Francisco State University Physics Colloquium (Invited) The Astrophysical Production of the Heaviest Elements
31 Oct 2020 2020 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics (Contributed) Which Neutron Star Mergers Synthesized the r-Process Elements?
23 Oct 2020 Gonzaga University Physics Colloquium (Invited) The Astrophysical Production of the Heaviest Elements
6 Oct 2020 N3AS Seminar (Invited) Properties of r-Process-Producing Neutron Star Mergers: What We Can Learn from Metal-Poor Stars
12 May 2020 Our Universe Revealed (Invited) Cosmic Alchemy: How the Universe Made the Heaviest Elements
24 Apr 2020 Ph.D. Thesis Defense The Looking Glass and Beyond: Using Observations and Modeling of Stellar Actinide Abundances as a Window into r-Process Events
14 Feb 2020 Andrews University eigen* Colloquium (Invited) Investigating the Production of the Heavy Elements with Stellar Uranium
8 Jan 2020 235th Meeting of the AAS (Contributed) The Actinide Boost and its r-Process Implications
2 Dec 2019 Notre Dame Nuclear Physics Seminar (Invited) Constraining the r-Process with Actinide Production Studies
20 Nov 2019 R-Process Alliance Workshop: Pushing toward the Next Project Phases (Invited) Constraining the r-Process with Actinide Production Studies
16 Oct 2019 2019 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics (Contributed) Actinide-Rich or Actinide-Poor, Same r-Process Progenitor
1 Oct 2019 Notre Dame Astrophysics Seminar (Invited) The Stellar Actinide Boost and its r-Process Implications
23 May 2019 2019 JINA-CEE Frontiers in Nuclear Astrophysics (Contributed) Actinide-Rich or Actinide-Poor, Same r-Process Progenitor
17 May 2019 First Frontiers Summer School (Invited) The r-Process
15 May 2019 First Frontiers Summer School (Invited) General Astronomy: Terminology and Observing Tools Relevant for JINA-CEE
17 Apr 2019 Notre Dame GPS Annual Conference (Contributed) Actinide-Boost Stars Might Not Suggest a Separate r-Process Site
28 Mar 2019 R-Process Sources in the Universe (Contributed) Actinide-Boost Stars may not Suggest a Separate r-Process Site
25 Oct 2018 Fifth Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the APS and JPS (Contributed) Actinide Production in Neutron Star Mergers
12 Oct 2018 JINA-CEE Online Seminar (Invited) Actinide Production in Neutron Star Mergers: Observation and Theory

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