Attended Conferences, Workshops, and Summer Schools

I thought it would be fun to keep a log of the conference I've attended. I anticipate this list will grow quite large over the coming years. If I gave a talk or presented a poster at the meeting the associated files are also available here for viewing.

| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |

  1. North Carolina Astronomers' Meeting
    October 18, 2008
    Guilford Technical Community College; Jamestown, North Carolina

  2. AAPT 2008 Summer Meeting
    July 19 - 23, 2008
    University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    Organizer for the Session: "Seeing the Universe without our Eyes"

  3. Improving the College Introductory Astronomy Survey Course for Non-Science Majors Through Active Learning: A Tier I (Introductory) Workshop
    April 12 - 13, 2008
    Guilford Technical Community College; Jamestown, North Carolina

  4. AAPT 2007 Summer Meeting
    July 28 - August 1, 2007
    University of North Carolina; Greensboro, North Carolina
    Contributed Poster: "Hands-on Gravitational Wave Astronomy for ASTRO 101" (pdf)

  5. Tenth Eastern Gravity Meeting and Saul Teukolsky Birthday Symposium
    May 31 - June 2, 2007
    Cornell University; Ithaca, New York
    Contributed Talk: "LISA's Observation of the Galactic Structure" (pdf)

  6. Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee Town Hall (#3)
    March 14, 2007
    Maryland Science Center; Baltimore, Maryland

  7. TeV Particle Astrophysics II
    August 28 – 31, 2006
    University of Wisconsin at Madison; Madison, Wisconsin
    Invited Talk: "Facing the LISA Data Analysis Challenge" (pdf)
    Proceedings Paper: Facing the LISA Data Analysis Challenge

  8. AAPT Topical Conference: Teaching General Relativity to Undergraduates
    July 20 – 21, 2006
    Syracuse University; Syracuse, New York
    Contributed Poster: "Hands-On Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Extracting Astrophysical Information from Simulated Signals" (pdf)

  9. LISA Science Analysis Workshop: Proof-of-Principle Demonstrations of LISA Analysis Capabilities
    June 24 – 26, 2006
    Hilton Garden Inn; Greenbelt, Maryland
    Invited Talk: "Analysis for Resolvable Galactic Binaries" (pdf)

  10. Sixth International LISA Symposium
    June 19 – 23, 2006
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Greenbelt, Maryland
    Contributed Talk: "When is Enough Good Enough in Source Modeling?" (pdf)
    Proceedings Paper: When is Enough Good Enough in Gravitational Wave Source Modeling?
    Contributed Poster: "Identification and Removal of Bright Galactic Binaries from LISA's Data" (pdf)
    Proceedings Paper: Slice & Dice: Identifying and Removing Bright Galactic Binaries from LISA Data
    Contributed Poster: "Event Rate for Extreme Mass Ratio Burst Signals in the LISA Band" (pdf)
    Proceedings Paper: Event Rate for Extreme Mass Ratio Burst Signals in the LISA Band

  11. LISA Working Groups and LIST Meetings
    June 17 – 18, 2006
    University of Maryland; College Park, Maryland

  12. Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV
    June 12 – 15, 2006
    Pennsylvania State University; University Park, Pennsylvania
    Contributed Poster: "When are Chirp Models Appropriate in Analyzing Gravitational Wave Data?" (pdf)

  13. Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers & Physicists II
    June 6 – 10, 2006
    Pennsylvania State University; University Park, Pennsylvania

  14. Gravitational Waves, Radio Pulsars, and Astrometry: Testing Gravity in the Next Decade
    March 30 – 31, 2006
    University of Birmingham; Birmingham, England

  15. 9th Eastern Gravity Meeting
    March 24 – 25, 2006
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Contributed Talk: "When are Chirp Models Appropriate in Analyzing Gravitational Wave Data?" (pdf)

  16. American Astronomical Society 207th Meeting
    January 8 – 12, 2006
    Marriott Wardman Park Hotel; Washington DC
    Contributed Poster: "Event Rate for Extreme Mass Ratio Burst Sources in the LISA Band" (pdf)

  17. LISA DASH, Working Groups, and LIST Meetings
    December 8 – 10, 2005
    California Institute of Technology; Pasadena, California

  18. The AMIGOS Workshop
    October 13 – 15, 2005
    Sheraton Pasadena; Pasadena, California

  19. Pulsar Timing Array — A Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Telescope
    July 21 – 23, 2005
    Days Inn; State College, Pennsylvania

  20. LISA Data: Analysis, Sources, and Science
    May 29 – June 19, 2005
    Aspen Center for Physics; Aspen, Colorado

  21. Statistics for Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
    May 19 – 21, 2005
    Days Inn; State College, Pennsylvania

  22. 8th Eastern Gravity Meeting
    March 18 – 19, 2005
    Wake Forest University; Winston-Salem, North Carolina
    Contributed Talk: "Identification and Subtraction of Bright Galactic Binaries from LISA's Data" (pdf)

  23. American Astronomical Society 205th Meeting
    January 9 – 13, 2005
    Town and Country Resort; San Diego, California
    Contributed Dissertation Talk: "Characterizing the Galactic Gravitational Wave Background with LISA" (pdf)

  24. Imagining the Future: Gravitational Wave Astronomy
    October 27 – 30, 2004
    Hilton Garden Inn; State College, Pennsylvania

  25. 20th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting
    March 26 – 27, 2004
    California Institute of Technology; Pasadena, California
    Contributed Talk: "Characterizing the Galactic Gravitational Wave Background" (pdf)
    Co-recipient of the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Award for the best student talk

  26. Inaugural Meeting of the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy
    December 14 – 15, 2003
    University of Texas at Brownsville; Brownsville, Texas

  27. Graduate Summer School on General Relativistic Hydrodynamics
    July 21 – August 1, 2003
    University of British Columbia; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  28. The Astrophysics of Gravitational Wave Sources
    April 24 – 26, 2003
    University of Maryland; College Park, Maryland
    Contributed Poster: "The LISA Simulator" (ppt)
    Proceedings Paper: The LISA Simulator

  29. 19th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting / Pricefest
    February 28 – March 2, 2003
    University of Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah
    Contributed Talk: "The LISA Simulator" (ppt)