Talks and Presentations

Scientific Presentations

• "Neutron Star Models and the Pulsar Glitch Mechanism"
  MIT Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
  Cambridge, MA, March 15, 1995

• "A Search for the Cosmic Dipole Effect in the 87 Green Bank and Parkes-MIT-NRAO Radio Surveys"
  MIT Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
  Cambridge, MA, November 22, 1995

• "A Near-Real-Time Correlator for Space VLBI"
  MIT Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
  Cambridge, MA, July 10, 1996

• "Update on the Near-Real-Time Correlator for VSOP"
  MIT Radio Astronomy Presentation
  Cambridge, MA, September 13, 1996

• "A Deep Survey of the SMC for Pulsars"
  MIT Radio Astronomy Presentation
  Cambridge, MA, January 24, 1997

• "Polarimetry of Young Pulsars"
  MIT Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
  Cambridge, MA, May 14, 1997

• "A Deep Survey for Pulsars in the Small Magellanic Cloud"
  MIT Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
  Cambridge, MA, October 29, 1997

• "The 69-ms Radio Pulsar Near the Supernova Remnant RCW103"
  MIT Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
  Cambridge, MA, May 6, 1998

• MIT Independent Activities Period Research Seminar Spotlight on Research in Physics at MIT
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Cambridge, MA, January 21, 1999

• "Current Status and New Results from the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey"
  MIT Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
  Cambridge, MA, February 17, 1999

• "The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey: Current Status and Recent Results"
  MIT Center for Space Research Friday Lunch Seminar
  Cambridge, MA, February 26, 1999

• "Surveying the Galactic Plane for Distant Pulsars: Recent Results from the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey"
  Swarthmore College Physics and Astronomy Department Special Colloquium
  Swarthmore, PA, May 10, 1999

• "A Multibeam Search for Radio Pulsars in the Magellanic Clouds"
  MIT Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
  Cambridge, MA, October 6, 1999

• "A Multibeam Search for Radio Pulsars in the Magellanic Clouds"
  MIT Center for Space Research Friday Lunch Seminar
  Cambridge, MA, October 22, 1999

• "400 New Pulsars from the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey"
  Williams College Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
  Williamstown, MA, October 29, 1999

• "Young Energetic Pulsars from the Parkes Multibeam Survey"
  CfA/MIT Joint Seminar Series on Neutron Stars and Supernova Remnants
  Cambridge, MA, January 19, 2000

• "Radio Pulsars and the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey"
  MIT Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
  Cambridge, MA, October 6, 1999

  "Radio Pulsars and the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey"
  Widener University Science Seminar
  Chester, PA, February 11, 2000

• "Radio Pulsars and the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey"
  Haverford College Physics and Astronomy Seminar
  Haverford, PA, November 15, 2000

• "Radio Pulsars and the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey"
  Bryn Mawr College Physics Seminar
  Bryn Mawr, PA, July 19, 2001

• "A New Radio Supernova Remnant Associated with the Young Pulsar J1119-6127"
  Haverford College Physics and Astronomy Seminar
  Haverford, PA, November 2, 2001

• "A New Radio Supernova Remnant Associated with the Young Pulsar J1119-6127"
  Widener University Science Seminar
  Chester, PA, December 10, 2001

• Pulsar introduction for "Parallel Computing for Scientific Applications" (by J. Dougherty)
  Haverford College Cascade Mentoring Program Workshop
  Haverford, PA, June 25, 2003

• "A Pulsar Survey of Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources"
  Fourth Annual Philadelphia Area Astronomers Meeting
  Glassboro, NJ, November 22, 2003

• "A Radio Pulsar Survey of Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources"
  Widener University Physics Seminar
  Chester, PA, December 15, 2003

• "A Search for Radio Pulsars Using Low-Cost Distributed Computing"
  West Chester University Physics Seminar
  West Chester, PA, February 24, 2005

• "A Search for Radio Pulsars Using Low-Cost Distributed Computing"
  Millersville University Physics Colloquium
  Millersville, PA, March 30, 2005

• "An Observational Test of a Pulsar Spin-down Model Using Radio Polarimetry"
  Franklin & Marshall College Astronomy Colloquium
  Lancaster, PA, November 17, 2005

• "An Observational Test of a Pulsar Spin-down Model Using Radio Polarimetry"
  Saint Joseph's University Physics Colloquium
  Philadelphia, PA, February 22, 2006

• "Transient Radio Pulses and Bursts from Compact Objects"
  27th Annual Central Pennsylvania Astronomers Meeting
  Gettysburg, PA, April 21, 2007

• "An Observational Test of a Pulsar Spin-down Model Using Radio Polarimetry"
  Williams College Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
  Williamstown, MA, March 7, 2008

• "Recent and Current Pulsar Search Projects with the F&M Beowulf Cluster"
  28th Annual Central Pennsylvania Astronomers Meeting
  Lancaster, PA, April 12, 2008

Popular Presentations

• Live broadcast phone interviews about pulsars
  3AW Talk and News Radio (AM 1278, Melbourne, Australia)
  September 14 and 28, 1997

• "Dark Stars: Finding and Studying Radio Pulsars in Our Galaxy"
  Chester County Astronomical Society
  West Chester, PA, May 11, 1999

• "Dark Stars: Searching for Radio Pulsars in the Milky Way"
  Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers
  Philadelphia, PA, October 13, 2000

• Casual public lecture on pulsars and current telescope projects at Parkes
  Parkes Observatory Visitors Discovery Centre
  Parkes, Australia, July 2, 2002

• "How Stars Work"
  Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers
  Philadelphia, PA, November 8, 2002

• "How Stars Work"
  Chester County Astronomical Society
  West Chester, PA, September 9, 2003

• "Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence"
  Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers
  Philadelphia, PA, February 13, 2004

• "Stellar Death"
  Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers
  Philadelphia, PA, February 18, 2005

• "Astronomy Pictures"
  Children's World Learning Center
  Exton, PA, January 4, 2006

• "Stellar Death"
  Central West Astronomical Society
  Parkes, Australia, February 1, 2008

• "Stellar Death"
  Astronomy Enthusiasts of Lancaster County
  North Museum of Natural History and Science
  Lancaster, PA, February 6, 2008

• "Stellar Death"
  Chesmont Astronomical Society "StarFest"
  Warwick County Park, Pottstown, PA, August 23, 2008