Presentations
"He Sedimentation and the UV Upturn in Brightest Cluster Galaxies"
Talk at the TASC09 workshop, USC, Los Angeles, CA, Oct 2009
"Coulomb Collisions and the Detectability of Virial Shocks in Galaxy Clusters"
Talk at the 214th American Astrophysical Society Meeting, Pasadena, CA, June 2009
"Plasma Physics in Galaxy Clusters"
Talk in Colloquium at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, February 2009
"Effect of Helium Sedimentation on X-ray Measurements of Galaxy Clusters"
Talk at the 8th Theoretical Astrophysics in Southern California (TASC'08), Irvine, CA, October 2008
"Effect of Helium Sedimentation on X-ray Measurements of Galaxy Clusters"
Talk at University of Chicago, Chicago, July 2008
"Effect of Helium Sedimentation on X-ray Measurements of Galaxy Clusters"
Talk at the TAPIR talk series, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, June 2008
"Effect of Helium Sedimentation on X-ray Measurements of Galaxy Clusters"
Poster at the HEAD 2008 meeting, Los Angeles, CA, Apr 2008
"Hydrogen-Powered Explosion on Accreting Neutron Stars"
Talk at the workshop on The Neutron Star Crust and Surface, Seattle, WA, June 2007
"Bursts on Accreting Neutron Stars"
Talk at the Los Alamos Astrophysics Seminar, Los Alamos National Labarotory, Nov 2006
"Weak H Flashes on Accreting Neutron Stars"
Talk at the 6th Theoretical Astrophysics in Southern California (TASC'06), Santa Barbara, Oct 2006
"Sedimentation and Type I X-ray Bursts"
Talk at Astrophysics at Argonne Luncheon, Argonne National Labarotory, July 2006
"Sedimentation and X-ray Bursts"
Talk at JINA Nuclear Astrophysics Lunch Talk Series, Michigan State University, Mar 2006
"What Can Stellar Oscillations Tell Us?"
Talk at the WOPAT graduate student talk series, UChicago, Jan 2006
"Sedimenation and Type I X-ray Bursts: Then and Now"
Talk at the Summer Student Talk Series in Los Alamos National Labarotory, Los Alamos, Aug 2005
"The Effect of Sedimentation on The Ignition of X-ray Bursts"
Talk at the Frontiers 2005 JINA Workshop, East Lansing, Aug 2005
"Two-component Jet Models of Gamma-ray Bursts"
Poster presented at the 206th AAS meeting, Minneapollis, May 2005
"Thinking Small and Making Small"
Talk at the WOPAT graduate student talk series, UChicago, May 2005
"A Brief Review on Jet Models of Gamma-ray Bursts"
Talk at the JINA group meeting, UChicago, Mar 2005
"Sedimentation and X-ray Bursts"
Talk at the JINA group meeting, UChicago, Jan 2005
"Gamma-ray Bursts: Central Engines and Jets"
Talk at the WOPAT graduate student talk series, UChicago, Nov 2004
"Two-component Jet Models of Gamma-ray Bursts"
Poster presented at the Gamma-Ray Burst in the Afterglow Era: 4th Workshop, Rome, Italy, Oct 2004
"Sedimentation and X-ray Bursts"
Poster presented at the 8th HEAD meeting, New Orleans, Sep 2004
"The Fate of White-Dwarf Collisions"
Talk at class Astro 436 (Theory of Supernovae, Tutor: Alexei Khokhlov), Jun 2004
"X-Ray bursts at low accretion rates including Diffusion"
Talk at JINA Workshop on Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics of Accreting Neutron Stars, KITP-UCSB, Apr 2004
"X-Ray bursts at low accretion rates including Diffusion"
Talk at Workshop on Surface Compositions of Accreting Neutron Stars,
Argonne National Laboratory, Sep 2003
"Unstable H/He Burning on Accreting Neutron Stars (multi-zone calculation)"
Poster presented at the 7th HEAD meeting, Quebec, Canada, Mar 2003
"Unstable H/He Burning on Accreting Neutron Stars (one-zone calculation)"
Poster presented at the FLASH Center Site Review, UChicago, Oct 2002
"There is Something about X-ray Bursts"
Talk at the WOPAT graduate student talk series, UChicago, Jan 2002
"A Possible Candidate for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays"
Talk at Class Astro 429 (Particle Astrophysics, Tutor: A. Olinto), Dec 2001