Talks

Lecture Notes and Talks

• Director's Blackboard Lunch: Dating Young Stars with Lithium Burning, Oct 4, 1999
• Talk on Type I Bursts at Maryland "Cosmic Explosions" Meeting, Oct 12, 1999
• Talk on Lithium Burning in Low-Mass Stars: A New Way to Measure Stellar Ages May 4, 2000
• Directors' Blackboard Lunch: Neutron Stars - A View from the Outside, Sept. 10, 2000
• Gravitational Radiation from Accreting Neutron Stars- Talk at Drexel Meeting on Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves - Oct 31, 2000
• Directors' Blackboard Lunch: Young Neutron Stars: Progress and New Questions (with Bennett Link) - Dec 11, 2000
• Life of an Accreted Nucleon on a Neutron Star: Invited talk at the APS/DNP Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics at the Limits of Stability , October 9, 2002
• Director's Blackboard Lunch: Physics of the White Dwarf Frontier, December 9 2002
• Gravity Program Talk: The First Measurement of the Gravitational Redshift of a Neutron Star, June 11, 2003
• Extreme Fluid Dynamics in White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars, Invited Talk at the 2003 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting
• Director's Blackboard Lunch, The Life of a Star, October 10, 2005
• "Physics of California" Chalk Talk with Phil Arras on Feb 1, 2006
• "Carbon Ignition In White Dwarfs", Feb 7, 2007
• "The Life of a Star", Talk at the KITP Teacher's Conference, March 17, 2007
• "Helium Flashes and Faint Supernovae", talk at KITP Conference: "Exploding Stars", March 19, 2007
• "Extragalactic Transients: From Novae to Supernovae", Oct-Dec 2007
• "MESA for Asteroseismology: Detecting the Helium Core Flash in Red Giants", Oct 28, 2011
• "Exploding Stars!", Apr 28, 2010