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.
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North
Carolina Astronomers' Meeting
October 18, 2008
Guilford Technical Community College; Jamestown, North Carolina -
AAPT 2008 Summer Meeting
July 19 - 23, 2008
University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Organizer for the Session: "Seeing the Universe without our Eyes" -
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 -
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) -
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) -
Beyond
Einstein Program Assessment Committee Town Hall (#3)
March 14, 2007
Maryland Science Center; Baltimore, Maryland -
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 -
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) -
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) -
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 -
LISA
Working Groups and LIST Meetings
June 17 – 18, 2006
University of Maryland; College Park, Maryland -
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) -
Summer
School in Statistics for Astronomers & Physicists II
June 6 – 10, 2006
Pennsylvania State University; University Park, Pennsylvania -
Gravitational
Waves, Radio Pulsars, and Astrometry: Testing Gravity in the Next
Decade
March 30 – 31, 2006
University of Birmingham; Birmingham, England -
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) -
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) -
LISA DASH,
Working Groups, and LIST Meetings
December 8 – 10, 2005
California Institute of Technology; Pasadena, California -
The
AMIGOS Workshop
October 13 – 15, 2005
Sheraton Pasadena; Pasadena, California -
Pulsar
Timing Array — A Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Telescope
July 21 – 23, 2005
Days Inn; State College, Pennsylvania -
LISA
Data: Analysis, Sources, and Science
May 29 – June 19, 2005
Aspen Center for Physics; Aspen, Colorado -
Statistics for
Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
May 19 – 21, 2005
Days Inn; State College, Pennsylvania -
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) -
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) -
Imagining
the Future: Gravitational Wave Astronomy
October 27 – 30, 2004
Hilton Garden Inn; State College, Pennsylvania -
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 -
Inaugural Meeting of the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy
December 14 – 15, 2003
University of Texas at Brownsville; Brownsville, Texas -
Graduate
Summer School on General Relativistic Hydrodynamics
July 21 – August 1, 2003
University of British Columbia; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada -
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 -
19th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting / Pricefest
February 28 – March 2, 2003
University of Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah
Contributed Talk: "The LISA Simulator" (ppt)
