Upcoming Research Talks

I have several upcoming talks. The primary subject of these presentations will be my ongoing work on high-n states and cosmological hydrogen recombination, described here.

Past Talks (research and pedagogical)

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  • CITA Cosmology Seminar: November 19, 2009
  • University of Texas Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar: November 16, 2009
  • Yale University Bi-weekly Cosmology Seminar: November 13th, 2009
  • KICP Friday Lunchtime Seminar: November 6, 2009
  • FermiLab Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar: November 5, 2009
  • KIPAC Tea Talk: October 30, 2009
  • UC Berkeley Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminar: October 27, 2009
  • Ohio State CCAPP Seminar: September 22nd, 2009
  • 9/22/09 CCAPP Seminar at the Ohio State University. Cosmological hydrogen recombination: high-n states and forbidden transitions.
  • July 2009 review talk on axions at the KISS Dark Matter Workshop. A blog/notes based on this talk are here.
  • July talk at University of Paris-Sud, Summer 2009 ESA workshop on recombination. Cosmological hydrogen recombination: high-n states and forbidden transitions
  • 1/24/09 Talk at University of Waterloo: Cosmological hydrogen recombination and high-n states
  • 1/20/09 Friday cosmology talk at the University of Michigan: Cosmological hydrogen recombination and high-n states
  • 1/18/09 NPAC talk at UW Madison: Cosmological hydrogen recombination and high-n states
  • 11/11/08 NUPAC talk at UNM Albuquerque: Cosmological hydrogen recombination and high-n states
  • TASC '08 talk on hydrogen recombination at UCI
  • Dark Matter '08 presentation on axion constraints in non-standard thermal histories
  • Caltech Candidacy Talk, 12/05/07
  • INPA Journal Club, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, 02/21/07
    • Stanford University Physics Department, Weekly Cosmology Meeting, 02/22/07
  • TAPIR Graduate Theory Lunches:
    Talks on telescope searches for axions, alternative theories of gravity, weak gravitational lensing, gravito-magnetism, tidal shocking in globular clusters, cosmological hydrogen recombination, and the evolution of the halo mass-concentration relationship
  • Kamionkowski Group Meeting: Talks on gravitional baryogensis, exotic dark matter candidates, cosmological hydrogen recombination, cosmological limits to axions, the PVLAS experiment, Ostriker-Vishniac effect, and searches for relic axions
  • Caltech Astronomy Journal Club:

    • Posters

    Irvine Conference on Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter: Poster on a telescope search for decaying relic axions
  • AAS Winter Meeting 2009: Poster on the effect of very high-n states on cosmological hydrogen recombination

    • The Irvine poster was also presented at a general interest technical poster session at Caltech. The AAS poster was presented as a special summer 2009 poster session for Caltech summer students.

    Last updated on September 4, 2009