Selected Conference & Presentations

Last Updates Apr. 20, 2016

  1. Oral Presentation, American Astronomical Society Winter Meeting (#227) Kissimmee, FL, January 2016, on “Effects of Stellar-Mass Black Holes on Star Cluster Evolution and Survival”
  2. Oral Presentation, Extreme Solar Systems III, Waikoloa, Hawaii, November-December 2015, on “Planetesimal Scattering and its Implications for the Period-Ratio Distribution of Kepler Planet Pairs“
  3. Invited Speaker, International Astronomical Union General Assembly, Focus Meeting 1 (FM1), Dynamical Problems in Extrasolar Planets Science, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2015, on “Period-Ratio Distribution of Near-Resonance Planets Indicate a Dynamical Past”
  4. Oral Presentation, International Astronomical Union General Assembly, Symposium (#316), Formation, Evolution, and Survival of Massive Star Clusters, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2015, on “Effects of Stellar-Mass Black Holes on Massive Star Cluster Evolution”
  5. Invited Review Talk, Division of Theoretical Astronomy Workshop, The Origins of Planetary Systems: from Current View to New Horizons, DTA, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, June 2015, on “Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems”
  6. Invited Speaker, Physics of Exoplanets, From Earth-sized to Mini-Neptunes Conference, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, February 2015, on “Inside-Out Planet Formation & Its Implications” (podcast)
  7. Oral Presentation, International Astronomical Union Symposium (#310), Complex Planetary Systems, Namur, Belgium, July 2014, on “Planetesimal Interactions can Explain the Mysterious Period-ratio Distribution near Mean Motion Resonances” 
  8. Astronomy Colloquium, Penn State University, University Park, PA, May 2014, on “Kepler Multiple Planet Systems: Mysteries & Possible Solutions” 
  9. Invited Speaker, American Astronomical Society, Division on Dynamical Astronomy meeting (#45), Philadelphia, PA, April 2014, on “Understanding the Milky Way Globular Clusters” 
  10. Oral Presentation, American Astronomical Society Winter Meeting (#223), Washington DC, January 2014, on “Planetesimal Migration and its Effects on Mean Motion Resonances”
  11. Astronomy Seminar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, April 2014, on “Understanding the Milky Way Globular Clusters”
  12. Astronomy Seminar, Presidency University, Kolkata, India, April 2014, on “Our Changing Understanding of Extrasolar Planets”
  13. Oral Presentation, American Astronomical Society Winter Meeting (#221), Long Beach, CA, January 2013, on “Prospect for Kepler Detecting Planets in Open Clusters”
  14. Astronomy colloquium, Argelander Institute, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, September 2012, on “Can We Find Planets in Star Clusters?”
  15. Invited speaker, Lorentz Center, Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters Workshop, Leiden, the Netherlands, September 2012, on “Modeling the Globular Clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy”
  16. Astronomy colloquium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, April 2011, on “Numerical Modeling of Dense Star Clusters” 
  17. Oral Presentation, Extreme Solar Systems II, Grand Teton National Park, WY, September 2011, on “Planets in Dense Star Clusters”
  18. Oral Presentation, International Astronomical Union Symposium (#276), The Astrophysics of Planetary Systems- Formation, Structure, and Dynamical Evolution, Torino, Italy, October 2010, on “How Planet-Planet Scattering Can Create High-Inclination as well as Long-Period Orbits”
  19. Oral Presentation, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics program, Formation and Evolution of Globular Clusters, Santa Barbara, CA, January-April 2009, on “Disturbed Blue Stars Bearing Clues to Cluster Properties”
  20. Oral Presentation, International Astronomical Union Symposium (#246), Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems, Capri, Italy, September 2007, on “Effects of Stellar Collisions on Star Cluster Evolution”
  21. Oral Presentation, American Astronomical Society, Division on Dynamical Astronomy meeting (#38), Ann Arbor, MI, May 2007, on “Dynamical Outcomes of Planet-Planet Scattering”
  22. Speaker, Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2006, on “Finding New Worlds”